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Formula 1 Russian GP

Russian GP practice 1 results: Rosberg leads first ever session

Mercedes pair tops free practice, Button only one tenth behind.

Edited: Oct 11, 2014, 8:24 AM

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Nico Rosberg, Mercedes AMG F1 W05

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

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