Red Bull obtained the best time on Friday practice at Albert Park Circuit

Sebastian Vettel (First Practice Session: Position: 1, Best Time: 1:27.211, Laps: 16 / Second Practice Session: Position: 1, Best Time: 1:25.908, Laps: 33):

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing RB9

Photo by: XPB Images

The soft tyre doesn’t last too long, but the harder tyre is a decent race tyre. The weather should be quite changeable tomorrow and, as we can’t predict how much that will impact the tyres and car balance, we need to be ready to change things.

Today was a good day and the balance was good, but we need to be ready for what’s coming up.”

Mark Webber (First Practice Session: Position: 5, Best Time: 1:27.668, Laps: 18 / Second Practice Session: Position: 2, Best Time: 1:26.172, Laps: 31)

“It was not a bad day and we got through plenty of information. It was nice to have a bit of sun on the circuit after Barcelona, where we had pretty overcast conditions. We had to correlate a lot of information from Europe and that went pretty well.

We still have a huge amount to go through tonight and we’re expecting a bit of overcast stuff tomorrow, so we need to be ready for that. Overall, it was pretty positive for us, but there are still areas to improve on.”

Mark Webber top five...

Five things to do before the start of a race... How long before the start? That’s the question. If it’s a while before then…

1. I need sleep. Always a good thing!
2. I need fuel, so something to eat. That means the usual things, a bit of pasta or chicken, something easy to digest.
3. Get a briefing from the engineers.
4. Put my race kit on and go to the toilet!
5. Get in the car, which I always do from the left-hand side and do the belts up.

That’s it really. It’s not a big process, just getting yourself mentally ready, being prepared. I don’t have any big rituals really, aside from the left-hand side of the car thing.

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