> Massa dominates in Malaysian heat

Felipe Massa completed his domination of Friday practice in Malaysia, setting the pace in the afternoon’s 90-minute session just as he had in the morning.

The surprise was the pace of the two Renault drivers, who vaulted up the timing charts in the dying moments to finish second and third fastest.

Giancarlo Fisichella edged out rookie team-mate Heikki Kovalainen by 0.2s, leaving the second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen in fourth place, 0.4s adrift of the flying Massa.

Nico Rosberg was fifth fastest, as he had been in the morning, with team-mate Alex Wurz – who had sat out the morning session while the team ran test driver Kazuki Nakajima – right behind him in sixth.

The McLarens set the initial pace but thereafter kept a low profile and wound up only ninth (Lewis Hamilton) and 12th (Fernando Alonso).

BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica set the first real benchmark time, a 1m36.717s, before the Ferrari duo got into their stride and took control of the proceedings.

Half an hour into the session, Raikkonen clocked a 1m36.669s, and a few minutes later Massa put that in perspective with an impressive 1m35.780s, which remained unbeaten for the rest of the afternoon.

Raikkonen later improved to 1m36.160s but, as in Melbourne, appears to be playing catch-up to his Brazilian team-mate after the first day.

Kubica was shuffled back to seventh behind the two Williams cars, three places ahead of team-mate Nick Heidfeld on a slightly low-key opening day for BMW.

Ralf Schumacher was eighth fastest for Toyota and the last man within a second of Massa’s time.

McLaren’s lack of pace was surprising but the Woking squad is doubtless playing its usual long game and it would be no surprise to see the silver cars return to the sharp end in qualifying.

Mark Webber set the 11th best time but stopped on track in the middle sector with around five minutes of the session remaining.

That was shortly after a red flag interruption triggered by a spectacular right-rear tyre blow-out that befell Christijan Albers as he braked for the first corner.

Super Aguri again won bragging rights in the Honda camp by outpacing the works cars, with Takuma Sato 14th and Anthony Davidson 18th while Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello languished in 15th and 21st respectively.


Friday free practice session 2 times from Sepang

1. MASSA Ferrari 1m35.780s

2. FISICHELLA Renault 1m35.910s

3. KOVALAINEN Renault 1m36.106s

4. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m36.160s

5. ROSBERG Williams 1m36.523s

6. WURZ Williams 1m36.621s

7. KUBICA BMW 1m36.717s

8. SCHUMACHER Toyota 1m36.760s

9. HAMILTON McLaren 1m36.797s

10. HEIDFELD BMW 1m36.862s

11. WEBBER Red Bull 1m36.906s

12. ALONSO McLaren 1m37.041s

13. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m37.203s

14. SATO Super Aguri 1m37.282s

15. BUTTON Honda 1m37.578s

16. TRULLI Toyota 1m37.712s

17. LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1m37.855s

18. DAVIDSON Super Aguri 1m38.334s

19. SUTIL Spyker 1m38.419s

20. SPEED Toro Rosso 1m38.650s

21. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m38.713s

22. ALBERS Spyker 1m39.807s

Source: itv-f1

Thats Massa @ Pole, Raikonnen @ 3rd.
And McLaren at 2nd and 4th.
So grid is gonna be Ferrari McLaren Ferrari McLaren which implies that the start would be interesting..

interesting!!

yay... so mclaren is finally doing well
ofcourse a dangerous thing to say with mclaren on qualifying day.

what time is the race btw

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Go ferrari goooooooooooooooo

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Race is at 12:30.

Looks like an interesting race !! I cant wait !! I hope Massa wins this one with Kimi coming second..

good work by massa, kimi also did well to qualify 4th after lots of spectulation over his car's engine. Hope to see a ferrari 1-2..

great race for Mclaren
till now that is

Alonso is flying and Hamilton is bringing up the rear.

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yay.. now hamilton is flying

about time ferrari ate the dust

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