Formula 1 practise session held on the street circuit in Australia.
Mercedes was on top of the time sheets with the current world champion, Lewis Hamilton taking up the top spot with Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg almost a second slower in wet situations where everyone wore intermediate tyres.
For Hamilton’s teammate, Nico Rosberg things didn’t go as per plans. At Turn 7, Rosberg gave it too much gas, spinning the rear wheels out of control, crashing to the barricade. The crash resulted in the brand new 2016 nose being damaged, which incidentally the team had not used in FP1 for the fear of damage.
Speaking about what happened, Rosberg said: “That wasn’t a good start to the weekend for me. It was very wet out there, which made it tricky. It’s a shame that I lost the car in P2. I just applied a little too much throttle through Turn 7, spun round and touched the wall. My front wing was quite damaged, so unfortunately the boys will have some extra work to do tonight. My apologies go to them and a big thank you for their hard work. I’m now looking forwards towards qualifying and the race to put in a better performance.”
Technical chief Paddy Lowe said: “Fortunately it wasn’t too major. The front wing was damaged and we’ve replaced the left front corner as a precaution – but nothing that will affect him over the rest of the weekend.”
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen in third. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo and Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz completed the top five.
Timesheet: Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1’38.841 7 2 Nico Hülkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1’39.308 0.467 8 3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1’39.486 0.645 7 4 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/TAG Heuer 1’39.535 0.694 9 5 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1’39.694 0.853 16 6 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1’39.895 1.054 16 7 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1’40.008 1.167 13 8 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1’40.761 1.920 7 9 Sergio Pérez Force India/Mercedes 1’41.256 2.415 8 10 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull/TAG Heuer 1’42.411 3.570 10 11 E.Gutiérrez Haas/Ferrari 1’42.891 4.050 10 12 Pascal Wehrlein Manor/Mercedes 1’43.401 4.560 25 13 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1’43.731 4.890 8 14 Rio Haryanto Manor/Mercedes 1’44.304 5.463 22 15 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1’47.356 8.515 4 - Kevin Magnussen Renault - 2 - Jolyon Palmer Renault - 5 - Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes - 2 - Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes - 2
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