Raikonnen and Lewis head to head in practice sessions
Istanbul Park, Formula1, Lewis Hamilton August 24th, 2007. 4:35 pmDespite a loose drain cover held up Friday’s second practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton split the top times with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen in the second practice session after Kimi had exceled in the first.
Raikkonen led the morning session with a time of 1 minute, 27.988 seconds on the 3.316-mile Istanbul Park circuit, ahead of his teammate Felipe Massa, while Hamilton was fastest in the afternoon, clocking 1:28.469 with Kimi and Toyota’s Ralf Schumacher in third.
Kimi was half a second faster in the first session, however its believed his team were experimenting with a light fuel load, as the Istanbul track is open to bothe one and two stop approaches.
Here are the session two practice times:
- HAMILTON McLaren 1m28.469s
- RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m28.762s
- R SCHUMACHER Toyota 1m28.773s
- TRULLI Toyota 1m28.874s
- MASSA Ferrari 1m28.884s
- ALONSO Mclaren 1m28.947s
- ROSBERG Williams 1m28.995s
- KOVALAINEN Renault 1m29.025s
- WURZ Williams 1m29.093s
- KUBICA BMW 1m29.368s
- COULTHARD Red Bull 1m29.435s
- FISICHELLA Renault 1m29.456s
- HEIDFELD BMW 1m29.792s
- BUTTON Honda 1m29.945s
- BARRICHELLO Honda 1m30.055s
- SATO Super Aguri 1m30.104s
- WEBBER Red Bull 1m30.314s
- DAVIDSON Super Aguri 1m30.530s
- LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1m30.702s
- VETTEL Toro Rosso 1m30.801s
- SUTIL Spyker 1m31.153s
- YAMAMOTO Spyker 1m31.175s
August 30th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Good times from Lewis. But I hope that Kimi will win at Monza!