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19th July 2014, 14:40
Nico Rosberg was the fastest man around Hockenheim in sizzling conditions on Saturday morning, going over half a second faster than Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was 'best of the rest', just four thousandths of a second behind Hamilton, followed by the Williams duo of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, but it was a session that raised more questions than answers.
The Silver Arrows had appeared to struggle on the soft Pirelli tyre, as Bottas and Massa set the pace with 1m 19.052s and 1m 19.380s respectively. Rosberg and the usual suspects followed very closely, as Hamilton, albeit on a higher fuel load initially than his team mate, sat well down the order.
Kimi Raikkonen, who had earlier suffered a fuel system issue, set the ball rolling with a lap of 1m 18.842s on the supersoft compound, but just as it seemed yesterday that Mercedes had been the biggest loser after the removal of FRIC suspension, Rosberg banged in the fastest lap by far of the weekend to go fastest on 1m 17.779s.
Hamilton
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Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was 'best of the rest', just four thousandths of a second behind Hamilton, followed by the Williams duo of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, but it was a session that raised more questions than answers.
The Silver Arrows had appeared to struggle on the soft Pirelli tyre, as Bottas and Massa set the pace with 1m 19.052s and 1m 19.380s respectively. Rosberg and the usual suspects followed very closely, as Hamilton, albeit on a higher fuel load initially than his team mate, sat well down the order.
Kimi Raikkonen, who had earlier suffered a fuel system issue, set the ball rolling with a lap of 1m 18.842s on the supersoft compound, but just as it seemed yesterday that Mercedes had been the biggest loser after the removal of FRIC suspension, Rosberg banged in the fastest lap by far of the weekend to go fastest on 1m 17.779s.
Hamilton
More... (http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2014/7/16108.html)