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Both Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took part in the first practice sessions of the Melbourne Grand Prix weekend, with Lewis sadly having more bad luck than its team mate in P1.
The Brit missed most of the first practice session after his Mercedes-AMG F1 W05 stopped on the track during the first lap because of a sensor calibration problem with the engine.
He did make up for a pretty much lost first practice in P2 though, when he managed to post the fastest lap time in both practice sessions, with Nico Rosberg managing to get second best time.
Lewis Hamilton: “It really was a day of two halves today. While it was disappointing to not get any track time this morning, these little hiccups are going to happen with the new cars and we’ll have to get used to that. It felt like I was on the back foot from there but then we got up to pace quite quickly in P2 and found the balance relatively fast.
I feel quite comfortable in the car so overall it’s a positive start but we need to look at the data now and understand where we are. We got a nice foundation for the weekend in the second session today so hopefully we can build on that in P3 tomorrow afternoon and then see where we are in qualifying.”
No less than six Mercedes-Benz-powered single-seaters managed to get in the top ten on the time sheets, albeit none of them were as fast as the two Mercedes-AMG Petronas drivers.
Hamilton's fastest time was almost four seconds off his fastest time in Melbourne in 2013, but this year's time was made on harder compound tires, so it is still not a measure of performance between the two drastically-different cars.
He did make up for a pretty much lost first practice in P2 though, when he managed to post the fastest lap time in both practice sessions, with Nico Rosberg managing to get second best time.
Lewis Hamilton: “It really was a day of two halves today. While it was disappointing to not get any track time this morning, these little hiccups are going to happen with the new cars and we’ll have to get used to that. It felt like I was on the back foot from there but then we got up to pace quite quickly in P2 and found the balance relatively fast.
I feel quite comfortable in the car so overall it’s a positive start but we need to look at the data now and understand where we are. We got a nice foundation for the weekend in the second session today so hopefully we can build on that in P3 tomorrow afternoon and then see where we are in qualifying.”
No less than six Mercedes-Benz-powered single-seaters managed to get in the top ten on the time sheets, albeit none of them were as fast as the two Mercedes-AMG Petronas drivers.
Hamilton's fastest time was almost four seconds off his fastest time in Melbourne in 2013, but this year's time was made on harder compound tires, so it is still not a measure of performance between the two drastically-different cars.
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