Russian GP practice 1 results: Rosberg leads first ever session
Mercedes pair tops free practice, Button only one tenth behind.
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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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