As the rain lightened in the second half of practice, the teams started working the laps at a soggy Silverstone practice session today. With a 10-minute red flag period for a damaged Williams F1 chassis of Bruno Senna’s, the session resumed with Lewis Hamilton thrilling the locals and leading the time sheets.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m56.345s 8 2. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m56.474s + 0.129 15 3. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m56.545s + 0.200 11 4. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m56.567s + 0.222 9 5. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m57.493s + 1.148 13 6. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m57.948s + 1.603 9 7. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m58.580s + 2.235 10 8. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m58.897s + 2.552 8 9. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m58.943s + 2.598 11 10. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m59.015s + 2.670 14 11. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m59.429s + 3.084 9 12. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m59.472s + 3.127 6 13. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m59.476s + 3.131 10 14. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m59.854s + 3.509 7 15. Felipe Massa Ferrari 2m00.565s + 4.220 7 16. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 2m00.820s + 4.475 11 17. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 2m01.099s + 4.754 6 18. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 2m01.348s + 5.003 12 19. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 2m03.719s + 7.374 8 20. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 2m04.774s + 8.429 8 21. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1 22. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2 23. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1 24. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth
Limited wet and rain tires meant the teams ran limited laps but gained some information on just what may be the best set ups should the race day call for rain. Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi looked great along with Mercedes AMG Petronas driver Michael Schumacher.
Does a wet practice session tell you anything about how the weekend could go?
