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2010 BAHREIN GP: SUTIL FASTEST IN FP1

GALERY, WC2010 RACESNEWS 2:28 AM

Adrian Sutil set the fastest time in the first free practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix for Force India. The German was faster then double world champion and pre-season favourite Fernando Alonso with 1m56.583s lap. The Ferrari driver's, second faster driver today, was 0.183s slower then Sutil. Another surprize of the day was Robert Kubica being third fastest for Renault. Polish was 0.458s back from Sutil, and less than three tenths faster than Felipe Massa's second Ferrari. First free pratcice show us that new team are extremly slow. Other times are:

Pos  Driver         Team                   Time              Laps
1.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:56.583            18
2.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:56.766  + 0.183   18
3.  Kubica         Renault                1:57.041  + 0.458   19
4.  Massa          Ferrari                1:57.055  + 0.472   19
5.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:57.068  + 0.485   19
6.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:57.163  + 0.580   19
7.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:57.194  + 0.611   19
8.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:57.199  + 0.616   15
9.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:57.255  + 0.672   17
10. Schumacher     Mercedes               1:57.662  + 1.079   16
11. Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:57.722  + 1.139   18
12. Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:57.894  + 1.311   20
13. Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:57.943  + 1.360   17
14. Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:58.399  + 1.816   13
15. Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:58.782  + 2.199   11
16. Petrov         Renault                1:58.880  + 2.297   13
17. de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         2:00.250  + 3.667   18
18. Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         2:01.388  + 4.805   11
19. Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        2:03.680  + 7.097    8
20. Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         2:03.848  + 7.265   21
21. Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         2:03.970  + 7.387   15
22. di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth                             2
23. Senna          HRT-Cosworth                                3
24. Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth