Kimi Räikkönen in demonstration...
22 05 2008
Kimi Räikkönen leads at the conclusion of this first practice 1. McLaren drivers completed the top 3. This weekend still, we'll see a duel Maranello vs Woking... Let us return at the moment over this Thursday morning in the streets of Monaco...
In Monaco, the first practice take place on Thursday and not on Fridays. It's 10 am, the session begins under the blue sky. There are 19°C in the air and 19°C on the track. The rate of humidity approaches the 76 %. The wind speed is of 1,5 m.s. Today, the teams will have of twice ninety minutes to prepare the qualifying and the race. On Saturday, the last session of training will last one hour.
Lewis Hamilton dominated this session from start to finish. Nevertheless, pole returns to Kimi Räikkönen. The Finn signs the best time of the morning in 1'15"948. He outstrips McLaren drivers and Felipe Massa. Nico Rosberg is the fifth. German is followed by Robert Kubiça. The top 8 is completed by Fernando Alonso and Rubens Barrichello. Mark Webber is classified ninth. Giancarlo Fisichella raises himself on the tenth rank. Force India driver realizes a very beautiful performance in the Monaco streets. Timo Glock appears to the eleventh position. The second part of the classification begins with Jenson Button. Sébastien Bourdais settles down on the thirteenth place. Nick Heidfeld is fourteenth but he had to abandon… Kazuki Nakajima is disappointing with his modest fifteenth position. Jarno Trulli is sixteenth. Italian of Toyota showed itself too optimistic in the entrance of the tunnel and was forced to give up. The bottom of the board counts Adrian Sutil, Nelsinho Piquet, Sebastian Vettel and David Coulthard. Red Bull driver was a victim of a technical problem on his car.
To note : 10:41 am, David Coulthard immobilizes his car in the chicane of the port. The session ends from this moment for Red Bull driver. 10:42 am, Nico Rosberg ventures on a new discipline : Drift … But in the streets of the Principality, this type of extravagance isn't advised !... 11:14 am, Jarno Trulli typed in the wall in the entrance of the tunnel. Italian broke the left back suspension of his car. Nick Heidfeld is in the stop victim of a failure of his BMW. 11:21 am, Kimi Räikkönen leaves to the fault to the Rascasse… Things being what they are, pole won't resist to him !... 11:28 am, Nelsinho Piquet is adrift in the chicane of the port.
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