The Red Bull drivers headed a rain-hit final practice session at Silverstone as the Mercedes pair did not set times.
With the track 18 seconds slower than it was yesterday Sebastian Vettel headed the times despite briefly sliding off the track at Becketts. Team mate Daniel Ricciardo was second-fastest.
The Lotus pair were next, Pastor Maldonado third-fastest ahead of Romain Grosjean. The latter had a spin at the exit of the final corner and narrowly avoided hitting the pit wall.
However Jules Bianchi was not so fortunate. Late in the session when the rain intensified the Marussia driver slid off at Stowe and nudged the barrier. Adrian Sutil and Lewis Hamilton also went off separately at the same corner, without hitting anything.
The unfavourable conditions discouraged drivers from doing much running, with only six of them getting their lap counts into double digits. The track never dried sufficiently for slick tyres to be used.
Combined practice times
Pos | Driver | Car | FP1 | FP2 | FP3 | Fri/Sat diff. | Total laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1’36.155 | 1’34.508 | 41 | ||
2 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1’35.424 | 1’34.736 | 64 | ||
3 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1’36.263 | 1’35.244 | 59 | ||
4 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull-Renault | 1’36.623 | 1’35.511 | 1’52.631 | +17.12 | 38 |
5 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull-Renault | 1’36.921 | 1’35.627 | 1’52.522 | +16.895 | 53 |
6 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 1’36.016 | 1’54.217 | +18.201 | 37 | |
7 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’36.963 | 1’36.228 | 1’54.041 | +17.813 | 65 |
8 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’37.231 | 1’36.299 | 1’53.911 | +17.612 | 70 |
9 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1’36.706 | 1’36.554 | 1’54.558 | +18.004 | 57 |
10 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso-Renault | 1’37.227 | 1’36.583 | 1’54.602 | +18.019 | 57 |
11 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1’39.461 | 1’36.671 | 1’55.003 | +18.332 | 40 |
12 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso-Renault | 1’37.175 | 1’36.778 | 1’53.654 | +16.876 | 75 |
13 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’38.056 | 1’36.951 | 1’56.274 | +19.323 | 66 |
14 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | 1’37.064 | 1’53.044 | +15.98 | 45 | |
15 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 1’37.910 | 1’37.097 | 1’53.566 | +16.469 | 60 |
16 | Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 1’37.720 | 1’37.236 | 1’56.918 | +19.682 | 66 |
17 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1’37.449 | 1’55.688 | +18.239 | 33 | |
18 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’37.520 | 1’53.585 | +16.065 | 37 | |
19 | Daniel Juncadella | Force India-Mercedes | 1’38.083 | 23 | |||
20 | Giedo van der Garde | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’38.328 | 19 | |||
21 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia-Ferrari | 1’38.917 | 1’38.658 | 1’57.586 | +18.928 | 29 |
22 | Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham-Renault | 1’39.068 | 1’57.914 | +18.846 | 41 | |
23 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 1’39.814 | 1’39.224 | 53 | ||
24 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 1’40.597 | 1’39.762 | 1’57.091 | +17.329 | 50 |
25 | Robin Frijns | Caterham-Renault | 1’42.261 | 11 | |||
26 | Susie Wolff | Williams-Mercedes | 1’44.212 | 4 |
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BasCB (@bascb)
5th July 2014, 11:21
Hm, so I guess Mercedes is fast, but might it be that they are a tidbit worried about reliability now?
Franton
5th July 2014, 11:38
Or they’ve forecasted a wet weekend and they don’t want to burn up their limited sets of wet tyres.
hunocsi (@hunocsi)
5th July 2014, 11:41
Or they know it won’t be wet anymore (as I read some forecasts) so they thought it’s needless to run.
petebaldwin (@)
5th July 2014, 11:44
Must be that way round. If they think it’s going to rain, they’d be mad to not get some practice in!
bosyber (@bosyber)
5th July 2014, 11:45
Wolff said something about saving tyres @petebaldwin so maybe not.
hunocsi (@hunocsi)
5th July 2014, 12:08
@bosyber I don’t think running one set of tyres off is that much of a waste.
By the way, how would the teams cope for a whole weekend if it was wet all along? 3 sets of wets and 4 sets of inters don’t sound like much…
bosyber (@bosyber)
5th July 2014, 12:17
Well @hunocsi, I agree, especially since it looks like it will be dryer for the rest of the weekend. But, if I heard Wolff correctly, apparently some within Mercedes do …
U2F1 (@u2f1)
5th July 2014, 11:36
is it gonna be a wet quali or the track will dry up before that?
sato113 (@sato113)
5th July 2014, 11:59
Hamilton did 5 laps, did he mess.up.every one? That guy does not.know.how.to.string a lap together
HK (@me4me)
5th July 2014, 12:37
a bit off topic: I just love the looks of the RB10. I honestly think, for me, it’s one of the most beautiful F1 cars of recent years.