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Nico Rosberg heads Hamilton in opening practice

Nico Rosberg heads Hamilton in opening practice

Published on 30 Sep 2016 05:32
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By: Dominik Wilde

NIco Rosberg lead opening practice for this weekend's Malaysia Grand Prix, beating team mate Lewis Hamilton by half a second.

The Mercedes pair headed the Ferrari duo of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel, with Fernando Alonso completing the top five.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen were sixth and seventh, while Nico Hulkenberg, Sergio Perez, and Jenson Button rounded out the top ten.

Alonso's position offered Honda some early encouragement with the Spaniard running Honda's latest power unit, however, neither of the Red Bull or Force India drivers, nor his team mate Button ran the soft tyre.

Daniil Kvyat was 11th, ahead of Valtteri Bottas and the Haas duo of Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez.

Carlos Sainz was 15th fastest, with Sauber's Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson in 16th and 17.

Felipe Massa, Jolyon Palmer, and Manor's Esteban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein completed the field.

The beginning of the session was marred by a dramatic fire for Kevin Magnussen, which left the Dane unable to set a time during the session.

F1Grand Prix Malaysia - Free practice 1

Sepang International - 30 September 2016

Driver

Team

Time

Difference

#
1

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

1:35.227

25
2

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

1:35.721

+0.494

25
3

Kimi Räikkönen

Ferrari

1:36.315

+1.088

16
4

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

1:36.331

+1.104

18
5

Fernando Alonso

McLaren

1:36.510

+1.283

18
6

Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull Racing

1:36.753

+1.526

27
7

Max Verstappen

Red Bull Racing

1:36.973

+1.746

26
8

Nico Hülkenberg

Force India

1:37.513

+2.286

26
9

Sergio Perez

Force India

1:37.601

+2.374

27
10

Jenson Button

McLaren

1:37.613

+2.386

20
11

Daniil Kvyat

Toro Rosso

1:37.847

+2.620

29
12

Valtteri Bottas

Williams

1:37.861

+2.634

17
13

Romain Grosjean

Haas F1

1:37.886

+2.659

22
14

Esteban Gutierrez

Haas F1

1:37.921

+2.694

20
15

Carlos Sainz jr

Toro Rosso

1:38.055

+2.828

25
16

Felipe Nasr

Sauber

1:38.184

+2.957

18
17

Marcus Ericsson

Sauber

1:38.313

+3.086

20
18

Felipe Massa

Williams

1:38.339

+3.112

24
19

Jolyon Palmer

Renault

1:39.148

+3.921

23
20

Esteban Ocon

Manor F1

1:40.036

+4.809

28
21

Pascal Wehrlein

Manor F1

1:40.627

+5.400

26
22

Kevin Magnussen

Renault

no time

2

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Saturday

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