A disappointing day’s practice for Red Bull according to both drivers.
Whilst the team didn’t encounter any major problems, both drivers were unhappy with the amount of mileage they got in FP1 and FP2.
Sebastian Vettel who finished 13th in FP1 and 5th in FP2 lamented the lack of running, managing 35 laps.
“So, the first day of the first race. Unfortunately we didn’t get a lot of running today. The track was still green this morning, so everyone was just checking their cars.
“In the second practice I had have the brakes changed and Mark couldn’t do the whole session, so it wasn’t ideal. I would have liked more track time, but it’s not Christmas and we’re not given things for free. We have a lot of work to but we know where we need to improve, so we will work on that.”
Mark Webber was also unhappy with his track time, a gearbox problem prompted the team to end his session early. He finished 9th in FP1 and 17th in FP2.
“Not such a good day and not enough mileage. We missed out a bit this afternoon; I had a gearbox problem, so the team made a precautionary stop with the car which ended P2 early. We’ll have to regroup and get what we can out of today – we’ll be focusing on qualifying in tomorrow’s practice.
“We still learnt some stuff today and Seb looked at the tyres. You can already see that it’s going to be bloody competitive this year, it’s going to be a good fight out there.”
