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FP1: A wet start at Yeongam

18 of the 24 drivers did set a time

By Franck Drui

14 October 2011 - 05:40

Incessant rain was the main feature of the opening free practice session for the Korean Grand Prix, which takes place at this track on Sunday. After doing installation laps, the wait for conditions to improve lasted almost an hour.

After that, Fernando Alonso took to the track to try some practice starts, but both he and team-mate Felipe Massa in the other 150º Italia did not do a single timed lap, preferring to not adventure out on a track that offered little to learn given how much standing water there was.

18 of the 24 drivers did set a time, headed by Michael Schumacher who did a 2.02.784 in the Mercedes, followed by Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull (2.02.840) and the Force India of Paul Di Resta (2.02.912.).

The action resumes with the second freee practice session at 14h00 (local time).

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
01	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	2.02.784		10
02	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Renault	2.02.840	+0.056	8
03	Paul di Resta	Force India Mercedes	2.02.912	+0.128	12
04	Adrian Sutil	Force India Mercedes	2.03.141	+0.357	12
05	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso Ferrari	2.03.182	+0.398	9
06	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber Ferrari	2.03.292	+0.508	13
07	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	2.03.391	+0.607	6
08	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	2.04.311	+1.527	12
09	Sergio Perez	Sauber Ferrari	2.04.797	+2.013	8
10	Mark Webber	Red Bull Renault	2.05.183	+2.399	5
11	Karun Chandhok	Team Lotus Renault	2.06.350	+3.566	11
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams Cosworth	2.06.852	+4.068	11
13	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso Ferrari	2.07.541	+4.757	9
14	Rubens Barrichello	Williams Cosworth	2.08.218	+5.434	5
15	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT F1 Cosworth	2.08.832	+6.048	14
16	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT F1 Cosworth	2.09.232	+6.448	14
17	Jérôme d’Ambrosio	Marussia Virgin Racing Cosworth	2.12.658	+9.874	7
18	Timo Glock	Marussia Virgin Racing Cosworth	2.14.508	+11.724	4
19	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	-.—.---	+—.---	1
20	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	-.—.---	+—.---	5
21	Bruno Senna	Lotus Renault GP	-.—.---	+—.---	1
22	Vitaly Petrov	Lotus Renault GP	-.—.---	+—.---	1
23	Heikki Kovalainen	Team Lotus Renault	-.—.---	+—.---	1
24	Jenson Button	McLaren Mercedes	-.—.---	+—.---	1