Free Practice 1 ended with Sébastien Buemi setting the tenth fastest time and Daniel Ricciardo – standing in for Jaime Alguersuari in this session - sixteenth.
That’s what it said on the timing screens and it was good to have them, seeing that the smog-fog mix seemed particularly bad today, reducing visibility at the track. Nothing much to report, with no particular problems for our boys today, as they worked through the usual Friday programme of searching for set-up solutions and evaluating the Pirelli tyres, yet again here running the hard Prime and the soft Option. Just for a change, Vettel and Webber were quickest for Red Bull Racing, chased by the McLaren duo of Hamilton and Button.
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