{"id":4221,"date":"2017-09-29T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:02:01","slug":"malaysian-gp-verstappen-sets-pace-by-seven-tenths-over-ricciardo-in-first-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/malaysian-gp-verstappen-sets-pace-by-seven-tenths-over-ricciardo-in-first-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"MALAYSIAN GP \u2013 Verstappen sets pace by seven tenths over Ricciardo in first practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen topped the times in a wet first practice ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Dutchman was seven-tenths faster than his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and McLaren\u2019s Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The session was delayed by half an hour as heavy rain poured down, but once the session got underway Verstappen soon set the pace. Red Bull have thrived in wet conditions this season, once again Verstappen proved that by going over one and half seconds faster than Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good result for the Spaniard who only managed six laps, three of which were while running the halo, to set his fastest time. But that wasn\u2019t enough to match the Ferrari\u2019s who set their best times in the final minute of the session.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari\u2019s Kimi Raikkonen was fourth ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who was one second and seventh tenths down on Verstappen\u2019s time. Both Ferrari drivers had minor off-track moments without damaging their cars.<\/p>\n<p>But the German was half a second up on championship rival Lewis Hamilton in sixth. While Hamilton\u2019s Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas was seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Williams Lance Stroll edged out Toro Rosso\u2019s Pierre Gasly, who is making his debut this weekend. Neither of Toro Rosso\u2019s \u2018race drivers\u2019 ran in the session, so that put him over two tenths faster than his team-mate Sean Gelael in sixteenth.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good morning for both the Toro Rosso juniors, they didn\u2019t make many mistakes. Sauber was another team who ran a reserve driver with Charles Leclerc in for Marcus Ericsson, the Monacan was ahead of team-mate Pascal Wehrlein.<\/p>\n<p>Renault was also running their reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin. The Russian suffered a half spin at Turn Two on his way to tenth fastest, just ahead of his team-mate Jolyon Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>But for Stroll\u2019s team-mate Felipe Massa, it was a difficult morning he only managed three laps before a suspected hydraulics failure.<\/p>\n<p>Also struggling were the Force India\u2019s who couldn\u2019t set a competitive lap time, with Esteban Ocon five seconds off the pace in thirteenth and team-mate Sergio Perez fifteenth.<\/p>\n<p>While the Haas\u2019s rounded off the times with Romain Grosjean ahead of Antonio Giovinazzi, with Massa failing to set a time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/preview-malaysian-grand-prix-2\/\">Preview \u2013 Malaysian Grand Prix<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen topped the times in a wet first practice ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Dutchman was seven-tenths faster than his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and McLaren\u2019s Fernando Alonso. The session was delayed by half an hour as heavy rain poured down, but once the session got underway Verstappen soon set the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[493,496,647,699,709,741,742,882,885,1068,1115,1124,1130,1203,1204,1227,1283,1298,1422,1495,1569,1639,1642,1654,1656,1707,1770,1773,1791,1800,1801,1808,1843,2025,2105,2149,2152],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-daniil-kvyat","tag-esteban-ocon","tag-felipe-massa","tag-ferrari","tag-force-india","tag-force-india-mercedes","tag-haas","tag-haas-ferrari","tag-jolyon-palmer","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-lance-stroll","tag-malaysian-gp","tag-malaysian-grand-prix","tag-marcus-ericsson","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes","tag-nico-hulkenberg","tag-pascal-wehrlein","tag-practice","tag-red-bull-tag-heuer","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-remove-term-2017-2017remove-s-sainz-jr-carlos-sainz-jr","tag-renault","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-sauber","tag-sauber-ferrari","tag-sebastian-vettel","tag-sepang","tag-sepang-international-circuit","tag-sergio-perez","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-toro-rosso","tag-valtteri-bottas","tag-williams","tag-williams-mercedes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}