Australian GP Friday practice
By: Geoff Creighton
Summary
Status: Stopped
We'll bring you all the reaction to that session over the coming hours on the Autosport news pages, plus BEN ANDERSON's trackside analysis of which drivers and cars impressed in the wet, and CRAIG SCARBOROUGH's tech notes from day one.
Autosport Live resumes its Melbourne coverage just before 4am on Saturday for practice three. See you then.
Autosport Live resumes its Melbourne coverage just before 4am on Saturday for practice three. See you then.
Into the final two minutes, barring a shock it's going to be an entirely-intermediate-tyred session that Hamilton will top.
As the team hinted, the Williams are cruising round just to do installation runs and pitstop practice.
Haryanto has a brush with the Turn 1 grass too, but doesn't go as far off course as Gutierrez and Perez did.
But the rain is now very much in attendance over the middle of the circuit, making the kinks on the back straight not much fun.
Order: 1 Hamilton; 2 Hulkenberg; 3 Raikkonen; 4 Ricciardo; 5 Sainz; 6 Alonso; 7 Button; 8 Vettel; 9 Perez; 10 Kvyat
It's stubbornly wet and Rosberg is having to watch from the garage after an early crash (in case you've just joined us)
It's stubbornly wet and Rosberg is having to watch from the garage after an early crash (in case you've just joined us)
Having dropped 3s at the end of the lap, Perez stays ninth. The return of the rain is going to spoil the final 15 minutes.
Perez lost a lot of time in the final sector as he encountered the latest rain shower, then skittered over the grass at Turn 1.
Further back: 11 Gutierrez; 12 Wehrlein; 13 Grosjean; 14 Haryanto; 15 Rosberg.
No time: Magnussen, Palmer, Ericsson, Nasr, Massa, Verstappen, Bottas
No time: Magnussen, Palmer, Ericsson, Nasr, Massa, Verstappen, Bottas
Order: 1 Hamilton 1m38.841s; 2 Raikkonen +0.7s; 3 Ricciardo +0.7s; 4 Sainz +1.0s; 5 Alonso +1.1s; 6 Button +1.2s; 7 Vettel +1.9s; 8 Perez +2.4s; 9 Hulkenberg +3.1s; 10 Kvyat +3.6s.
And there's the danger in these conditions at Albert Park- you catch a wet part of the track at the wrong moment and you end up in the wall. It is a 'street' circuit after all.
It looks like Rosberg has avoided damaging the suspension, but the front wing is wedged under the car as he nurses it back to the garage.
Rosberg lost it out of Turn 8 and went into the wall nose first. The Mercedes is limping back to the pits.
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