Grosjeanu's first free practice

 

Romain Grosjean was the fastest in the first free practice for the Abu Dhabi GP. The Lotus racer overtook the second fastest racer, Lewis Hamilton, by 1 seconds with a time of 44.241: 0.192. Sebastian Vettel was third.

As the racers are slowly running out of new engines towards the end of the season (only eight can be used per season), there was a long lull at the beginning of the first free practice on the track. After almost half an hour, Sergio Perez made it to the fast lap, and was soon followed by the others.

At the top of the timeline, the names of the racers changed quickly, but at the end of an hour and a half of training, the fastest time belonged to Lotus racer Romain Grosjean. Lewis Hamilton and new-old world champion Sebastian Vettel came closest to the Frenchman.

Webber and Rosberg finished fourth and fifth, and Kimi Raikkonen, who caused a fuss among journalists with a late arrival in Abu Dhabi, was sixth.

Three reserve racers were given the opportunity to train. James Calado sat in Adrian Sutil’s race car and was XNUMXth, Heikki Kovalainen in Giedo van der Gard’s Caterham finished training in XNUMXth place, and Rodolfo Gonzales, who replaced Max Chilton, was almost two seconds worse than Jules B specifically the slowest.

 

Abu Dhabi GP results; 1. free training:

	Racer	Team	Hour	Laps
1.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	01:44.241	21
2.	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:44.433	23
3.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	01:44.499	18
4.	Mark Webber	Red Bull	01:44.712	20
5.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	01:44.741	24
6.	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus	01:44.929	23
7.	Paul di Resta	Force India	01:45.040	20
8.	Jenson Button	McLaren	01:45.099	20
9.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	01:45.150	24
10.	Sergio Perez	McLaren	01:45.331	20
11.	Nico Hulkenberg	Clean	01:45.378	23
12.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	01:45.440	18
13.	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	01:45.823	22
14.	James Calado	Force India	01:45.924	20
15.	Esteban Gutierrez	Clean	01:46.068	18
16.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	01:46.114	22
17.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	01:46.124	18
18.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	01:46.126	21
19.	Charles Pic	Caterham	01:47.600	22
20.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	01:47.670	22
21.	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	01:47.723	23
22.	Rodolfo González	Marussia	01:49.565	22