Russian GP practice 1 results: Rosberg leads first ever session
Mercedes pair tops free practice, Button only one tenth behind.
Mercedes team underlined its dominance locking up first to lines of the session timesheets. Jenson Botton showed that experience is not just a word - ended the session in P3.
All the teams and drivers were lerning the new track, lots of mistakes and new data to process.
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Time/Retired | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 01:42.311 | 29 | |
| 2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 01:42.376 | 0.065 | 25 |
| 3 | 22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 01:42.507 | 0.196 | 28 |
| 4 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 01:42.720 | 0.409 | 27 |
| 5 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 01:43.026 | 0.715 | 28 |
| 6 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | STR-Renault | 01:43.164 | 0.853 | 26 |
| 7 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 01:43.212 | 0.901 | 29 |
| 8 | 25 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Renault | 01:43.327 | 1.016 | 23 |
| 9 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 01:43.542 | 1.231 | 24 |
| 10 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 01:43.741 | 1.430 | 9 |
| 11 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 01:43.842 | 1.531 | 22 |
| 12 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 01:43.976 | 1.665 | 25 |
| 13 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 01:44.173 | 1.862 | 21 |
| 14 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 01:44.506 | 2.195 | 30 |
| 15 | 99 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 01:44.625 | 2.314 | 26 |
| 16 | 13 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | 01:44.964 | 2.653 | 26 |
| 17 | 37 | Sergey Sirotkin | Sauber-Ferrari | 01:45.196 | 2.885 | 22 |
| 18 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 01:45.190 | 2.879 | 25 |
| 19 | 45 | Roberto Merhi | Caterham-Renault | 01:46.782 | 4.471 | 18 |
| 20 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 01:46.922 | 4.611 | 18 |
| 21 | 4 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 01:47.284 | 4.973 | 26 |
For the complete results, visit our Formula One result pages.
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