Vettel and Webber dominate Hungarian FP1

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber completely dominated Friday Practice 1 in Hungary today, beating all of their rivals by more than an entire second. Robert Kubica was third, but nowhere near the Red Bulls. Lewis Hamilton suffered several problems in this session.

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber completely dominated FP1 in Hungary today

Vettel’s fastest lap was a 1.20.976, which was 0.13 seconds faster than Webber. However, Kubica was an entire second slower, leading many to speculate about the Red Bulls running light on fuel. Jenson Button was 4th, but another 4 tenths off Kubica’s time. Rubens Barrichello did yet another good performance in the Williams to get 5th, while Pedro de la Rosa was impressive in 6th. Fernando Alonso was testing their new blown rear wing, and came 7th. Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher were 8th and 9th, followed by Nico Hulkenberg.

Adrian Sutil was half a second faster than team-mate Paul di Resta, and Felipe Massa was12th on his return to the Hungaroring. He was the first out on track, although he was lapping the track slowly at first. Vitaly Petrov was 13th, Kamui Kobayashi 14th, while Paul di Resta was 15th. Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari were 16th and 17th, while Lewis Hamilton struggled with the balance of the car, as well as suffering a technical glitch, and was 18th.

The two Lotus cars were miles faster than the Virgin or Hispania cars. Jarno Trulli was 19th, and an entire second faster than the fastest Virgin. Heikki Kovalainen was 20th, followed by Timo Glock, Lucas di Grassi and Bruno Senna. Sakon Yamamoto was last, 7 seconds slower than Vettel, and an entire second slower than his team-mate Senna.

		Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	# of Laps
1		Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1′20.976		29
2		Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1′21.106	0.130	27
3		Robert Kubica	Renault	1′22.072	1.096	21
4		Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1′22.444	1.468	17
5		Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1′22.601	1.625	25
6		Pedro de la Rosa	Sauber-Ferrari	1′22.764	1.788	24
7		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1′22.772	1.796	25
8		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1′22.777	1.801	25
9		Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1′22.792	1.816	26
10		Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1′22.966	1.990	25
11		Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1′23.003	2.027	19
12		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1′23.007	2.031	26
13		Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1′23.249	2.273	24
14		Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1′23.327	2.351	23
15		Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1′23.520	2.544	19
16		Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1′23.780	2.804	22
17		Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1′23.868	2.892	28
18		Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1′24.075	3.099	15
19		Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1′25.032	4.056	22
20		Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1′25.210	4.234	23
21		Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1′25.990	5.014	21
22		Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1′26.868	5.892	17
23		Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1′26.990	6.014	34
24		Sakon Yamamoto	HRT-Cosworth	1′28.157	7.181	24

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