Spanish Grand Prix – Saturday Practice

by Terry Saunders on 9/05/2009

We’re getting all nostalgic here at anotherf1podcast, today’s practice felt all a bit 2008, with the Ferrari’s locking the top two positions and some mercedes powered cars on 3 and 4.

But obviously, that’s not really the case, Ferrari probably haven’t got enough to actually lock off the front of the actual grid later, but there’s definitely been an improvement from the red cars.

Heidfeld was the talk of the town after thwacking his BMW into a wall, giving payback to any of his engineers who muttered “consistent” under their breath whenever he walks past.

The Brawns and Red Bulls still seem to be the cars that’ll have a good quali, and a banzai alonso…

Pos  Driver       Team                       Time               Laps
 1.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:20.553           18
 2.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:20.635  + 0.082  22
 3.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:21.050  + 0.497  19
 4.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:21.163  + 0.610  17
 5.  Kubica       BMW Sauber            (B)  1:21.239  + 0.686  21
 6.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:21.256  + 0.703  23
 7.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:21.346  + 0.793  16
 8.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:21.377  + 0.824  26
 9.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:21.424  + 0.871  19
10.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:21.499  + 0.946  17
11.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:21.519  + 0.966  15
12.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:21.594  + 1.041  20
13.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:21.629  + 1.076  19
14.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:21.649  + 1.096  19
15.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:21.685  + 1.132  18
16.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:21.689  + 1.136  18
17.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:21.909  + 1.356  19
18.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:22.043  + 1.490  19
19.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:22.232  + 1.679  19
20.  Heidfeld     BMW Sauber            (B)  1:23.457  + 2.904  8