2007 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX FREE PRACTICE
Fernando Alonso MP4-22 06
Lewis Hamilton MP4-22 04
T-car MP4-22 05
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McLaren Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso
finished Friday's second free practice session for the Santander
British Grand Prix in Silverstone in fourth and sixth positions
respectively. Lewis completed 39 laps and set a time of 1min21.381
whilst Fernando did 35 laps with a best time of 1min21.616.
In the morning session, Lewis was fastest with 1min21.100
(24 laps) and Fernando was fourth with 1min21.675 (21 laps).
Practice Session One:
Fernando: Lewis:
10.02: out / in 10.00: out / in
10.33: 7 laps, best 1:21.675 (4th) 10.28: 6 laps, best 1:21.828
11.01: 10 laps, best 1:21.759 10.49: 4 laps, best 1:21.529
11.27: 3 laps, best 1:23.437 11.08: 6 laps, best 1:21.100
(1st) 11.21: 7 laps, best 1:21.159
Practice Session Two:
Fernando: Lewis:
14.03: 8 laps, best 1:22.114 14.04: 6 laps, best 1:22.600
14.26: 7 laps, best 1:21.912 14.25: 5 laps, best 1:22.662
14.46: 4 laps, best 1:22.607 14.36: 4 laps, best 1:22.131
14.59: 8 laps, best 1:21.698 14.51: 10 laps, best 1:21.381
(4th)
15.20: 8 laps, best 1:21.616 (6th) 15.13: 14 laps, best 1:22.216
FERNANDO ALONSO
"Today has been quite windy and with Silverstone being
such a flat circuit it really can affect the balance of the
car; this is why we saw so many people, including myself,
going off at some point today. As usual we were working on
the set-up of the car and assessing the two Bridgestone Potenza
tyre compounds for this weekend and we completed our planed
programme. The work has been good, and I am happy with the
results so far. We seem to be competitive and the car is working
very well here, so hopefully we will have a strong weekend
in front of all the people coming from Woking and Brixworth."
LEWIS HAMILTON
"It is great to be here at my first home Grand Prix and
to be driving a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 car in
front of all the British supporters. Today has been really
positive, and the work we have done seems to be taking us
in the right direction. The car feels great to drive around
this track, which is one of my favourites, and I am looking
forward to the rest of the weekend where I expect us to remain
strong. We gathered a lot of useful data which we will look
at overnight and then continue our work tomorrow."
RON DENNIS
"A productive start to McLaren’s home Grand Prix,
where we did a lot of laps and completed the planned programme.
As is often the case in the UK, the weather has proved to
be less than ideal, but we will see what the rest of the weekend
brings. So far so good, and we look forward to tomorrow."
NORBERT HAUG
"We looked good on the time sheet of the morning session
and not so much in the afternoon. We went through our planned
programme and concentrated on race set up and tyre comparisons.
We found a good base to further work from tomorrow."
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