Fp2 - Lrgp Report

Nick Heidfeld, R31-04

Free Practice 1: P9, 1:17.445, 28 laps

Free Practice 2: P9, 1:16.422, 32 laps

Vitaly Petrov, R31-05

Free Practice 1: P14, 1:18.506, 15 laps

Free Practice 2: P8, 1:16.324, 32 laps

Vitaly Petrov and Nick Heidfeld continued their preparations for the Canadian Grand Prix during an interrupted second session of free practice.

Two red flags disrupted the afternoon but the two LRGP drivers made the best of the time available to try out both the soft and the supersoft compounds on different fuel levels. Vitaly ended up 8th with a time of 1m 16.324s, with Nick 9th after a lap of 1m 16.422s.

Vitaly summed it up: “It’s a different car to drive with supersofts: much more grip.”

Just like this morning, there was a red flag in the middle of the session as Kamui Kobayashi crashed his Sauber at Turn 4. Shortly after the restart, Jérôme D’Ambrosio followed him into the same wall in his Virgin, causing another stoppage. Adrian Sutil had earlier damaged his Force India in the armco barriers on the run-up to the hairpin.

Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, put his Ferrari on top of the timesheets. Just as happened two weeks ago, the Spaniard led the session for the majority of the afternoon with a lap of 1m 15.107s, ahead of Sebastian Vettel, Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.

Elsewhere Pedro de la Rosa took the place of Sergio Perez in the other Sauber as the Mexican reported he felt unwell after his heavy crash in Monaco.