Although
Kimi Räikkönen finished the first practice day of the Australian
Grand Prix in Melbourne as fastest man on the track, the Finn
still was't quite satisfied with the setup of his Ferrari F2008.
As
usual, Kimi's work on Friday centred on finding the best set-up on
the car and a comparison of the two types of tyre that Bridgestone
supplied to the team.
Kimi
completed a total of 25 laps in the first free practice and
recorded the fastest lap of the morning session. The McLaren
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton as well Felipe Massa followed the
Finn with a gap of almos 0.5 seconds.
Kimi
then covered a total of 28 laps in the second free practice. But
with his time of 1:28208 minutes he was not able to improve his
lap time from the first practice session. Lewis Hamilton was the
fastest driver in the second practice after setting a time of
1:26.559 minutes. But with this time the McLaren driver was still
0.1 seocnds slower than Kimi in the morning.
"I
am not very happy with the way practice went. This morning we
found some good settings for the car, but in the afternoon, we
struggled and our lap times reflect that. We must look carefully
at the data to work out how to improve the car. We have seen that
if we manage to find the right set-up, we have the potential to be
competitive."
2nd
Free Practice:
| Pos |
Driver |
Team |
Laps |
Time |
Gap |
| 1. |
L.
Hamilton |
McLaren |
33 |
1:26.559 |
|
| 2. |
M.
Webber |
Red
Bull |
27 |
1:27.473 |
0.914 |
| 3. |
F.
Massa |
Ferrari |
29 |
1:27.640 |
1.081 |
| 4. |
H.
Kovalainen |
McLaren |
28 |
1:27.683 |
1.124 |
| 5. |
D.
Coulthard |
Red
Bull |
26 |
1:28.037 |
1.478 |
| 6. |
K.
Raikkonen |
Ferrari |
28 |
1:28.208 |
1.649 |
| 7. |
J.
Trulli |
Toyota |
22 |
1:28.292 |
1.733 |
| 8. |
N.
Rosberg |
Williams |
31 |
1:28.352 |
1.793 |
| 9. |
G.
Fisichella |
Force
India |
32 |
1:28.469 |
1.910 |
| 10. |
T.
Glock |
Toyota |
28 |
1:28.582 |
2.023 |
| 11. |
J.
Button |
Honda |
30 |
1:28.632 |
2.073 |
| 12. |
N.
Heidfeld |
BMW |
32 |
1:28.731 |
2.172 |
| 13. |
F.
Alonso |
Renault |
37 |
1:28.779 |
2.220 |
| 14. |
R.
Barrichello |
Honda |
28 |
1:28.849 |
2.290 |
| 15. |
R.
Kubica |
BMW |
35 |
1:28.860 |
2.301 |
| 16. |
K.
Nakajima |
Williams |
33 |
1:29.077 |
2.518 |
| 17. |
A.
Sutil |
Force
India |
32 |
1:29.161 |
2.602 |
| 18. |
S.
Vettel |
Toro
Rosso |
40 |
1:29.193 |
2.634 |
| 19. |
N.
Piquet |
Renault |
14 |
1:29.518 |
2.959 |
| 20. |
S.
Bourdais |
Toro
Rosso |
11 |
1:29.605 |
3.046 |
| 21. |
T.
Sato |
Super
Aguri |
16 |
1:30.663 |
4.104 |
| 22. |
A.
Davidson |
Super
Aguri |
8 |
1:31.527 |
4.968 |
|