Kamui Kobayashi set the pace in a rain-soaked first session at Spa on Friday, with a lap that was half a second ahead of Pastor Maldonado with the Toro Rossos of Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne third and fourth. Mark Webber was next ahead of Sergio Perez, Nico Rosberg, Valtteri Bottas (Williams), Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher, Paul di Resta, Timo Glock, Nico Hulkenberg, Vitaly Petrov, Lewis Hamilton, Jneson Button, Charles Pic, Heikki Kovalainen, Pedro de la Rosa and Dani Clos (HRT), with Romain Grsojean, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa doing only in and out laps. There were a few minors offs and Massa suffered an apparent engine failure at the end of the session. The times should not be considered very significant.
As we watch FP2 not happening here is a suggestion. — PfP points for practice. Any driver appearing at the top of the timings during FP 1,2&3 gets 10 points. This means that HRT, Marussia and co can all earn points, if they go out first as usual. If they leave it too late they will not head the timing. The front end teams normally leave running until later, using the smaller teams as guinea pigs, water clearers and rubber layers. If anyone leaves it too late they will be after faster drivers . Sure the top teams will also get points, but more than half will miss out. (this is calculated using a complicated algorithm involving 3 dimensions and “L Space” )
If you give points for practice then is not practice anymore, is competition.
“the times should not be considered very significant”
Pah! What do you know Joe
. Well done Kamui. Decent weekend so far!