The big news coming out of the practice sessions on Friday 27th March at the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix was the surprising pace of the Williams team. Not many people were expecting that! For me however, as much as I'd like to see a grand old team like Williams become successful again, my main focus is on Sebastien Buemi.
Sebastien Buemi was the first driver to complete a lap in P1, meaning he was in position 1 for a very brief amount of time. I know that means less than nothing, but must have been a good feeling for him to see his time up there.
Unfortunately however, Sebastien finished P2 with the slowest time, a couple of seconds behind the Williams, and had this to say (from www.formula1.com):
My first F1 practice session and I had a lot of new things to learn and to deal with. It was not too bad, we tried various changes and improved the car lap by lap. The second session got off to quite a good start, but later we had some difficulty with finding the right set-up. Given our lack of testing with this car, today was like a test session which we used to learn more about the car. It’s my first time at this circuit and I still need to get used to it and I learned a lot, but there is still plenty to do to improve tomorrow.
In the battle with his STR teammate, Sebastien Bourdais, Buemi finished the day slightly behind. Bourdais finished in position 16, four places and about 0.6 seconds better than Sebastien Buemi. However, in P1, the roles were reversed, with Sebastien Buemi in position 15 and Bourdais in position 19, 0.7 seconds behind.
At the end of the day, it doesn't mean much - Qualifying tomorrow is much more important. It's shaping up to be a hard session for Sebastien Buemi and Toro Rosso, with it looking like they'll struggle to get into Q2.
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