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Live Update

2014 Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix

1st Friday Practice  2nd Friday Practice  Saturday Practice  Qualifying  Race

 

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Saturday Practice

 
Russian Grand Prix - 2014 - Saturday Practice
(11/10/2014) 
12:01
NewsOnF1: 
Welcome to our coverage of the 2014 Russian Grand Prix
12:02
NewsOnF1: 
Saturday practice gets underway under sunny skies and air temperature at 21 degrees while track temperature is at 16 degrees
12:03
NewsOnF1: 
Drivers on their installation laps at this stage
12:04
NewsOnF1: 
The two dry tyre types for this event are the mediums and soft
12:05
NewsOnF1: 
The tyres appear to be very durable with little degradation. The problem on the softs is that they reach their optimum after 2 or 3 flyers!
12:05
NewsOnF1: 
Sutil stays out and is on a timed lap
12:05
NewsOnF1: 
A 1:43.432 for Sutil
12:06
NewsOnF1: 
Kvyat stays out as well
12:06
NewsOnF1: 
Kvyat sets a 1:42.988
12:07
NewsOnF1: 
Vettel heads into the pits but the team tells him to stay out, he crosses the pitlane entry lane and goes back on the track, he could be penalised for that
12:08
NewsOnF1: 
Vergne quickest with a 1:42.600
12:09
NewsOnF1: 
Red Bull were struggling yesterday, will be interesting to see if they have found some improvements
12:09
NewsOnF1: 
Now Hamilton quickest with a 1:42.030
12:10
NewsOnF1: 
Red Bull seems to have found something, Vettel goes quickest with a 1:41.999
12:10
NewsOnF1: 
Rosberg now quickest with a 1;41.859
12:11
NewsOnF1: 
Ricciardo, Magnussen and Button have yet to go out
12:11
NewsOnF1: 
Vettel improves with a 1:41.554
12:11
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Hamilton on a quick lap
12:12
NewsOnF1: 
Indeed Hamilton goes quickest with a 1:40.725
12:12
NewsOnF1: 
Kvyat goes second with a 1:41.291
12:14
NewsOnF1: 
The two McLaren drivers head out. Ricciardo doesn't seem to be in a rush to go out. He stopped on the track at the end of the second practice
12:14
NewsOnF1: 
Now Rosberg goes second with a 1:41.139
12:16
NewsOnF1: 
Kvyat improves with a 1:40.960, retakes second
12:18
NewsOnF1: 
Magnussen has stopped on the track
12:18
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Session stopped
12:19
NewsOnF1: 
Very strange problem for Magnussen, he appeared to lose steering!
12:20
NewsOnF1: 
Magnussen is out of the car and his car is being pushed by the marshals
12:21
NewsOnF1: 
FP3 - Top 10










12:22
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Session restarting in 1 minute
12:22
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Ricciardo is waiting at the end of the pit lane
12:23
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Session resumes and the two McLarens and Ricciardo are the first out
12:27
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Most drivers on the track now
12:29
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Maldonado is the only driver yet to set a time
12:30
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Ricciardo goes 10th with a 1:42.160
12:30
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Alonso goes 4th with a 1:41.058
12:31
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Perez is the first on the softs
12:31
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Bottas quick!
12:32
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And goes quickest with a 1:40.655
12:32
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Hamilton responding
12:33
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Perez is back on the mediums. Probably a computer error
12:33
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Hamilton makes a mistake in S2, doesn't improve
12:34
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Hamilton trying again setting quickest time in S1
12:35
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Again has a poor S2 and pits
12:35
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FP3 - Top 10










12:36
NewsOnF1: 
Rosberg on a quick lap
12:37
NewsOnF1: 
Rosberg goes quickest with a 1:40.178
12:38
NewsOnF1: 
Bottas improves but remains in second
12:39
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Just over 20 minutes remaining. A run on the softs about to commence
12:40
NewsOnF1: 
Most drivers back in the pits in preparation for their final run
12:42
NewsOnF1: 
Massa goes 3rd with a 1:40.446, look like Williams are today the closest to Mercedes. Yesterday it was McLaren
12:43
NewsOnF1: 
A lot of wok on Maldonado's car, he has yet to set a time
12:46
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A number of drivers head out on the softs
12:47
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Raikkonen is the first one, he starts a timed lap
12:47
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Raikkonen only 6th on the softs with a 1:41.025
12:48
NewsOnF1: 
Button goes 4th with a 1:40.707, that is really odd as they were near the top of the timesheets yesterday
12:49
NewsOnF1: 
Rosberg doesn't improve
12:50
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But Hamilton continues from his form from yesterday and sets a 1:38.726
12:51
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Ricciardo goes 4th with a 1:40.392
12:51
NewsOnF1: 
These soft tyres keep improving! Now Button sets a 1:40.355
12:52
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Bottas goes second with a 1:39.650
12:52
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Massa goes 3rd with a 1:39.998
12:53
NewsOnF1: 
Rosberg seems to struggle on the softs, he takes 3rd with a 1;39.686 nearly a second slower than Hamilton
12:54
NewsOnF1: 
Hamilton has a big spin, he doesn't hit anything and crawls into the pits
12:55
NewsOnF1: 
Replay shows he lost the rear all of a sudden
12:58
NewsOnF1: 
Ricciardo goes 4th with a 1:39.755
12:59
NewsOnF1: 
Bottas improves with a 1:39.097, remains in second
12:59
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Alonso goes 7th with a 1:40.151
13:00
NewsOnF1: 
Rosberg improves with a 1;39.016, takes second
13:00
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Session over
13:01
NewsOnF1: 
Raikkonen takes 7th from Alonso with a 1:40.011
13:03
NewsOnF1: 
FP3 - Top 10










Button, Hulkenberg, Perez, Sutil, Gutierrez, Grosjean, Magnussen, Ericsson, Kobayashi, Chilton and Maldonado make the rest of the field.
Magnussen stopped on the track while Maldonado didn't set a time

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