{"id":14692,"date":"2013-04-20T03:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14692"},"modified":"2013-04-20T03:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T03:50:15","slug":"bahrain-gp-raikkonen-fastest-in-second-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14692","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain GP: Raikkonen fastest in second practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-14096\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sebastianvettelcelebratesaftertakingpolepositioninthequalifyingsessionfortheindianformulaonegrandprix\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sebastianvettelcelebratesaftertakingpolepositioninthequalifyingsessionfortheindianformulaonegrandprix.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sebastianvettelcelebratesaftertakingpolepositioninthequalifyingsessionfortheindianformulaonegrandprix.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sebastianvettelcelebratesaftertakingpolepositioninthequalifyingsessionfortheindianformulaonegrandprix-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Bahrain: <strong>Kimi Raikkonen<\/strong> went fastest for Lotus F1 Team on the opening day of action here at round four of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship; the Bahrain Grand Prix. Kimi set a 1min 34.154secs lap using the medium compound tyres in hot conditions during the Friday afternoon practice session ahead of Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile world champion Sebastian Vettel finished third while Romain Grosjean \u2013 who is using a new chassis for this weekend \u2013 set the seventh fastest time of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the practice session, Kimi said: \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be fastest but you never know what the others are doing; we just stick to our programme and don\u2019t take too much notice of what else is happening. I actually made a mistake through the final corners on my fastest lap, so there\u2019s still more time to be found. It\u2019s tricky to get the setup right here and the wind can make a big difference; it might work for you one way but make things more tricky the other. It wasn\u2019t a bad start today; things aren\u2019t exactly where we want them but we\u2019re reasonably fast, so let\u2019s see what we can do from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romain Grosjean<\/strong> said that they were getting there and it\u2019s been a positive day. \u201cThe new chassis feels good. Today we\u2019ve been working on getting the right correlation between chassis, setup and tyres to extract everything we want from it. It\u2019s easy to know what you want, the difficult bit is getting the little details sorted, but we\u2019re getting there and it\u2019s been a positive day. We\u2019ve seen that Kimi was fastest today so that gives us a great target for tomorrow,\u201d said Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <strong>Mark Webber<\/strong>, who would be racing his 200th race, said, \u201cI would have liked to have got some more running in P2, but I still think we learned what we expected today. Saturdays are perhaps becoming less important overall than they used to be, but they\u2019re still important in terms of traffic. You don\u2019t want to be in too much traffic on Sunday, as the tyres don\u2019t like being disturbed and wear more which will shorten your first stint \u2013 so you still need to be in a good position. We still have areas to improve on the car. Lotus and Ferrari look strong and Mercedes is there too.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>World Champion <strong>Sebastian Vettel<\/strong> said that it was pretty close. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty close. If you look at the opposition then Ferrari and Lotus were strong today and I think it will be close in qualifying. It\u2019s important to work with the tyres around the track. I wasn\u2019t so happy with my short runs today \u2013 but that\u2019s why we have the Friday practice sessions I guess; I was happier with the longer runs. The tyres still seem to be the dominating factor. The car seems quick, so we have to make sure we use that and then we should be on the right page,\u201d said Vettel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Kimi Raikkonen went fastest for Lotus F1 Team on the opening day of action here at round four of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship; the Bahrain Grand Prix. Kimi set a 1min 34.154secs lap using the medium compound tyres in hot conditions during the Friday afternoon practice session ahead of Red Bull&#8217;s Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[3889,2186,8713,7074,6293,1695,8491,4651,8553,1435,1694],"class_list":["post-14692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-bahrain-grand-prix","tag-f1","tag-fia-formula-1-world-championship","tag-formula-1","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-lotus-f1-team","tag-mark-webber","tag-red-bull-team","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bahrain GP: Raikkonen fastest in second practice - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14692\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bahrain GP: Raikkonen fastest in second practice - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bahrain: Kimi Raikkonen went fastest for Lotus F1 Team on the opening day of action here at round four of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship; the Bahrain Grand Prix. 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