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Abu Dhabi GP
2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Friday - Practice
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It's advantage Lewis Hamilton after the first day of practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: the Briton finished just ahead of team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg in both sessions.
Full second practice report is online now here.
Full second practice report is online now here.
And the top 10:
1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 Magnussen
4 Vettel
5 Bottas
6 Ricciardo
7 Raikkonen
8 Button
9 Kvyat
10 Massa
1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 Magnussen
4 Vettel
5 Bottas
6 Ricciardo
7 Raikkonen
8 Button
9 Kvyat
10 Massa
Here's the bottom half of the FP2 order:
11 Perez
12 Maldonado
13 Hulkenberg
14 Vergne
15 Gutierrez
16 Sutil
17 Grosjean
18 Kobayashi
19 Stevens
20 Alonso
11 Perez
12 Maldonado
13 Hulkenberg
14 Vergne
15 Gutierrez
16 Sutil
17 Grosjean
18 Kobayashi
19 Stevens
20 Alonso
Vettel ends his session by locking up and going wide. Red Bull tells him to push on his in-lap anyway unless he gets the yellow flag test.
Checkered flag
The chequered flag comes out to end Friday, and it's two out of two for Lewis Hamilton.
Kvyat doesn't sound wildly thrilled with Toro Rosso's request for him to keep pushing on tyres he thinks are wrecked.
Remember, you can get full analysis of the long-tyre runs and how the race pace for each team is shaping up later on courtesy of EDD STRAW and GARY ANDERSON.
McLaren asks Magnussen to push his tyres a bit harder for his final few laps to see how they behave.
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"Your laptimes are starting to look good for this tyre range," McLaren tells Button.
Breaking news
There's going to be another virtual safety car test at the end of this session, with the FIA saying it will take place at panels 12-14.
Red Bull tells Vettel to "take it easy through the pitlane, don't go too fast" to make sure he comes out in a good traffic gap.
"How was the pace on that tyre because the rears are really good?" asks Hamilton. He's told he's in better shape with rear wear than most.
Vettel and Ricciardo look good on the soft tyre, which both Hamilton and Rosberg are also on. Bottas, with his tyre concerns, is slower than the McLarens and Force Indias.
Bottas tells Williams that the right rear tyre is going to be the limitation, but that it has two or three more laps in it.
Button and Alonso stick out like sore thumbs on the laps completed list. The Spaniard managed two, Button's completed a dozen. Everyone else is north of 20.
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"Problem. I'm stuck with Perez and I can't use DRS and I will never overtake him," declares Vettel. "OK, drop back," is Red Bull's advice.
Force India tells Perez he can "feel free to push the rear tyres", so he's looking after the Pirellis well once again.
Ricciardo had a moderate lock-up of his right-front into a chicane before pitting to switch from super-softs to softs.
Force India says to Perez that Grosjean not letting him past on his last run was "not very polite".
Rosberg's had a couple of laps in the 1m49s now, with Bottas slightly quicker and Ricciardo slightly slower. Hamilton's earlier in his stint and in the 1m47s.
Vettel's now on softs.
Vettel's now on softs.
Hulkenberg asks Force India if the tyre graining clears up for other cars. He's told it doesn't look like.
The Red Bulls of Vettel and Ricciardo matched Rosberg at the beginning of this second stint on the supersofts but the Mercedes has remained in the 1m47s while the Red Bulls and Bottas' Williams are in the 1m48s.
No improvement for Button in further laps on his newer supersofts so he's back in the pits.
Button tells McLaren there's something wrong with his brake pedal.
Hulkenberg also reports right-front graining. "It's quite bad at the moment," he tells Force India.
Maldonado is the latest to justify the TV director hitting the 'slow-mo kerb-hopping replay' button.
Seems to be supersoft data the teams are craving, with the majority of cars now running on used sets of the softest-compound Pirellis.
Grosjean continues to wrestle the Lotus and goes off briefly at Turn 17.
Kvyat tells Toro Rosso his front right tyre is graining. He's on softs at the moment.
Button rises to eighth with that lap, a 1m43.503s.
McLaren suggests a setting change to help Button with his downshifts.
Vettel has a wild trip over the kerbs without harm.
Stevens's summary: "I think there's a lot more to come, in terms of putting a lap together."
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"I made a few mistakes on that run," Stevens tells Caterham, before explaining them in detail. Very conscientious.
More cars on track than not now, including Button on the supersoft. Unsurprisingly, he's green in the first sector. How high can the Briton leap?
Perez is the latest driver to explore the limits at Turn 1.
Grosjean skates over the Turn 1 run-off.
Kobayashi has a little excursion off the road at Turn 9.
By: AUTOSPORT staff, Scott Mitchell, Pablo Elizalde
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