Alvin's Formula One Blog

Friday 8th May 2009 Nico Rosberg experienced both pace and problems in Friday's second practice in Spain as the Williams driver set the pace before breaking down. Rosberg, who has often topped the timesheets in this season's practice sessions, posted a 1:21.588 to beat his team-mate Kazuki Nakajima to the P1 slot. But, moments before the end of the session, the German was forced to park his Williams on the side of the track as he suffered a technical problem. Third place went to hometown favourite Fernando Alonso. Report: With cloud cover building overhead, the second practice session for the Spanish GP got underway at the Circuit de Catalunya on Friday afternoon. Bad news for Adrian Sutil, his Force India suffered a fuel cell problem and as that takes roughly six hours to replace the German would be forced to sit out the session. Sebastian Vettel, Jarno Trulli and Nico Rosberg got proceedings underway with t...

Thursday 19th March 2009 Kazuki Nakajima claimed the final pre-season P1 position at Jerez on Thursday after netting the fastest lap time of the day - and of the week. Just two outfits, Williams and McLaren, remained at Jerez for the final day of pre-season testing ahead of next weekend's Australian GP. It was a day to conduct some last minute tweaking with both Williams and McLaren finding pace they otherwise hadn't shown during the week. Nakajima proved to the quicker of the two drivers, clocking a 1:17.494 under clear and sunny skies. It was an impressive lap from the Japanese driver, who eclipsed the previous best time set by Jenson Button on Tuesday by four tenths of a second. Heikki Kovalainen, spending his second successive day touring the Jerez track in his MP4-24, also broke into the 1:17s, but was just under half a second slower than Nakajima. Times 1. Nakajima Williams 1:17.494 102 laps 2. ...