Abu Dhabi is proving a major hit with the F1 crowd despite the plethora of slow corners, as the technical nature of the track sorts out the wheat from the chaff. The interest in the final hour of free practice came in the final minutes as the new World Champion, Jenson Button, took the top slot from the outgoing champion Lewis Hamilton, the Brawn just two one thousandths of a second faster in the end.
Rubens Barrichello put the second Brawn in third place, quarter of a second of the fastest time, and Sebastien Buemi again impressed in the STR to take a fine fourth position. Buemi’s team mate, young Jaime Alguersuari, was forced to sit out the session as his car developed a major hydraulic malfunction.
Fifth with a late run was Nick Heidfeld, the German in the BMW admitting to being baffled by a lack of pace early on but clearly finding something in the latter part of the session, while Heikki Kovalainen backed up the promise of the KERS equipped McLaren’s with sixth position.
Jarno Trulli took seventh for Toyota, Robert Kubica eighth with the second BMW, Adrian Sutil ninth for Force India and the final top ten slot went to Kimi Raikkonen, the Ferrari three quarters of a second slower than the best times.
Written: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:11:04
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