Practice report

Abu Dhabi GP practice 1 results: Hamilton on top

Another Mercedes showdown for the Abu Dhabi Friday practice 1.

After fine-tuning cars in the first part of the session, while the teams were working on their programmes, we saw title contenders interchange first two positions on the timesheet few times. But point leader Lewis Hamilton managed to snatch a little more than one tenth from Rosberg's time.

Departing from Ferrari after a five year stint Fernando Alonso posted third fastest time, but it was 1.708sec slower than Lewis Hamilton's.

Will Stevens, who was signed by Caterham on the last minute was more than 7 seconds slower than Mercedes.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:43.476		32
2	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:43.609	0.133	31
3	14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:45.184	1.708	22
4	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1:45.334	1.858	30
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	1:45.361	1.885	23
6	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:45.718	2.242	17
7	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	1:45.835	2.359	32
8	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:45.913	2.437	8
9	11	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:45.983	2.507	23
10	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:46.030	2.554	24
11	20	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	1:46.049	2.573	23
12	7	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:46.131	2.655	23
13	19	Felipe Massa	Williams	1:46.549	3.073	7
14	21	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber	1:46.556	3.080	28
15	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:46.711	3.235	31
16	31	Esteban Ocon	Lotus	1:47.066	3.590	29
17	22	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:47.235	3.759	8
18	10	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham	1:47.971	4.495	24
19	37	Adderly Fong	Sauber	1:48.269	4.793	25
20	46	Will Stevens	Caterham	1:50.684	7.208	14