Lewis Hamilton fastest on day one at Sochi
The championship leader’s best time of 1:39.630 in Free Practice 2 was a massive 0.894 of a second faster than his closest rival, during the afternoon session, and almost a second up on title rival and Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg who ended the session fourth fastest.
Earlier Rosberg made history as the first Formula 1 driver to set a timed lap at the inaugural Russian Grand Prix in the morning session.
The Briton, who leads Rosberg by 10 points in the world championship standings after winning the last three races, went top of the timesheets in a slightly shortened session – the red flag came out eight minutes from the end when Australian Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull halted with a power unit failure.
Kevin Magnussen second fastest
McLaren‘s Jenson Button was the early pacesetter as drivers got to grips with a layout compared to the former Valencia street circuit and Singapore, with the 2009 champion ending the morning as the third fastest.
He also collected two fines totalling 1 100 euros for pitlane speeding and was sixth fastest in the second session.
Ferrari‘s Fernando Alonso was fourth and third in the two sessions, with Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen, Button’s teammate, fifth and then second in the afternoon.
The only Russian regular, Toro Rosso’s 20-year-old rookie Daniil Kvyat, followed up seventh in the morning with eighth after lunch.
That was still ahead of both Red Bulls, his 2015 employers, with four times champion Sebastian Vettel ninth after reporting a loss of power on the straight and Ricciardo 13th.
Fernando Alonso was third fastest
Williams had a disrupted opening session when a problem with a tyre blanket damaged a set of Valtteri Bottas’s tyres, limiting his running.
All drivers took to the track with stickers of support for Jules Bianchi, Marussia’s French driver who was severely injured in a crash in Japan last Sunday and remains in critical condition.
Marussia announced before the session that they would have only one car running this weekend, with Bianchi’s assembled and left in the garage as a mark of respect.
Chilton ended the first session with the slowest time but picked up speed in the afternoon, “I don’t know how to put into words how truly devastated I am by what has happened to Jules.”
“It is going to be a very emotional weekend for the whole team, but we will try to get through it and keep praying for Jules.”
Russian Grand Prix, Free Practice 2 at Sochi Autodrom – Friday, 10 October 2014
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:39.630 | 27 | |
| 2 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:40.494 | 0.864 | 32 |
| 3 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:40.504 | 0.874 | 32 |
| 4 | 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:40.542 | 0.912 | 30 |
| 5 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 1:40.573 | 0.943 | 33 |
| 6 | 22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:40.718 | 1.088 | 32 |
| 7 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1:40.731 | 1.101 | 30 |
| 8 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | STR-Renault | 1:41.108 | 1.478 | 32 |
| 9 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 1:41.396 | 1.766 | 30 |
| 10 | 25 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Renault | 1:41.531 | 1.901 | 33 |
| 11 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:41.630 | 2.000 | 24 |
| 12 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1:41.677 | 2.047 | 27 |
| 13 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 1:42.061 | 2.431 | 25 |
| 14 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 1:42.090 | 2.460 | 29 |
| 15 | 99 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:42.233 | 2.603 | 31 |
| 16 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 1:42.892 | 3.262 | 30 |
| 17 | 13 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | 1:42.905 | 3.275 | 33 |
| 18 | 21 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:43.055 | 3.425 | 33 |
| 19 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 1:44.135 | 4.505 | 22 |
| 20 | 4 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 1:44.530 | 4.900 | 29 |
| 21 | 10 | Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham-Renault | 1:44.952 | 5.322 | 27 |
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