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Formula 1 Brazilian GP

2014 Brazilian Grand Prix Friday - Practice

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Gutierrez might still be having problems. He's been back out, but pits again without doing a flying lap.
Raikkonen got quite far into the long right-hander before the Ferrari got away from him - compared to others who have gone off there.
Raikkonen was on a better lap prior to that spin, as was Nasr, who would've encountered the yellows for the Ferrari.
Raikkonen is the latest driver to spin at Laranjinha.
Nasr improves from 15th to 12th. He's 0.336s behind team-mate Massa.
Massa nips up to ninth in the Williams, 0.011s ahead of Ricciardo in 10th.
Button has his helmet on, so it looks like he is going to get a short run at the end of this session. Less than seven minutes remaining for McLaren to get him on track.
Alonso goes off at Bico de Pato. He locked up on the way in, but couldn't prevent the car from running wide onto the grass.

We then get a replay of him grappling on the same kerb that spat Juncadella into the barriers earlier.
Kvyat does faster first and third sectors, but doesn't find any time in the middle so his current third-place lap stands as his best.
Nasr does a better middle second but stays 15th in the Williams he's handing back to Valtteri Bottas at lunchtime.
Hamilton is told that his target laptime is a 1m16.0s. That's more than three seconds shy of his and Rosberg's benchmarks in this session.
Massa gets Williams into the top 10 with a lap 1.6s off the pace to go from 13th to 10th.
Verstappen had a huge lock-up which took him through a (very wide) gap in the barriers. He was briefly heading for a piece of the old Interlagos layout there, before finding his way back onto the modern version.
Another change for third as Kvyat pops in ahead of Alonso, beating the Ferrari by 0.019s.
Verstappen has taken a detour at Turn 1, rejoining from behind one of the barriers.
Button has zipped up his race suit, but with 11 minutes to go it's got to be unlikely that he'll be back out.
Verstappen says his car is behaving much better now - "It's much easier to save the rear tyres".
Alonso now jumps up from ninth to third, a second off Rosberg.
Kvyat is another man improving his sectors but not the complete lap. He's seventh.
Massa puts in better sector one and two times, but the last part of the lap isn't an improvement and he stays 13th.
Though Gutierrez's Sauber is running again after earlier troubles, it hasn't yet done a flying lap, just four in/out runs.
Alonso is one of the few drivers improving at the moment, going up to ninth.
The Williams continues to make Massa work hard as he locks a wheel into Turn 1.
Massa gets off-line through Mergulho, and he has to scramble to keep the car pointing in the right direction.
Green flag
The session resumes with 20 minutes left and Hamilton and Gutierrez are first out.
Button is still in the McLaren garage keeping an eye on the progress being made with his car - which shut itself down at the end of his first lap of this session.
An anxious Perez looks on from the Force India pit, hoping his car can be fixed in time for FP2.
Bottom half of field:

10 Hulkenberg
11 Alonso
12 Vettel
13 Grosjean
14 Nasr
15 Massa
16 Juncadella
No time: Button, Gutierrez
Juncadella clipped the outside kerb out of Laranjinha, which kicked the Force India into a twitch as he approached the braking zone. He then locked up, and couldn't stop the car slamming into the barriers.
Lead order during this stoppage:

1 Rosberg
2 Hamilton
3 Verstappen
4 Maldonado
5 Raikkonen
6 Magnussen
7 Kvyat
8 Ricciardo
9 Sutil
Rosberg was on a quicker lap just as that red flag came out. He had completed a faster first sector than before.
Red flag
Juncadella climbs out of the car, and the session is stopped.
The DTM driver has gone off at Turn 8, straight-on.
Hamilton finds time too, but he's still 0.221s off Rosberg with his 1m12.985s.
Yellow flag
Juncadella has crashed the Force India.
Stopwatch
Rosberg increases his advantage to just over seven tenths of a second with a lap of 1m12.764s.
Rosberg goes quicker again in the first sector. Hamilton is also still out but not improving.

By: Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, AUTOSPORT staff

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