Spanish GP - Practice Session 1 - Red Bull continue to dominate

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Friday Practice Session - 1, Spanish Grand Prix, Circuit De Catalunya, Barcelona

The first practice session in Barcelona went troublefree. The sunny and bright day displayed the power of Red Bull again.

Mark Webber put the best lap out there which was better than over 1sec to his teammate Sebastian Vettel.

Nico Rosberg continues to work on Mercedes pace to place them 3rd in the table with renewed Ferrari on 4th. Ferrari's faith in Alonso capabilities can be seen on track as well as offtrack. Ferrari have signed Alonso until 2016.

Rookie Perez drove exceptionally in first session and reaching 5th on the timesheets. He is followed by Lewis Hamilton in Mclaren.

Michael Schumacher steadly climbed the timesheet during the 1hr 30min long practice session and finished 7th in the second Mercedes. Michael had won Barcelona Grand Prix 6 times, most by any F1 driver on this circuit.

Nick Heidfeld put his upgraded Renault in 8th position followed by Jenson Button in second Mclaren.

Williams continues to improve their performance after worst start to their season and aim to finish in points this time with Rubens Barrichello put his FW33 in 10th position. While Pastor Maldonado was 13th on the timesheet but the Rookie driver again made mistake as he always does and went off the track on turn 12 into the dirt.

Petrov was 11th while future F1 Driver Daniel Ricciardo continues to impress all and put his Toro Rosso in 12th position.

Third and Reserve Driver of Force India, Nico Hulkenberg, was 14th ahead of his teammate Adrian Sutil. Both the drivers tested the new Aero upgrades for the team.

Felipe Massa was only 16th in his Ferrari ahead of Sauber Japanese Star Kamui Kobayashi.

Jaime Alguersuari put only 18th fastest time.

It was Team Lotus whose much needed upgrades have put them in competition with midfielders. Kovalainen was able to match the pace of Toro Rosso, Force India and Sauber. But his teammate Jarno Trulli had a rough day and finished 23rd for the first session.

Behind Kovalainen came the two Virgin's and then HRT's. HRT seem to match Virgin but this time, it looks Virgin have put a step forward to continue to leap ahead of their closest rivals.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 25.142sec		27
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 26.149sec	1.007	20
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 26.379sec	1.237	29
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 26.480sec	1.338	27
5	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 26.738sec	1.596	26
6	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 26.988sec	1.846	19
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 27.016sec	1.874	32
8	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 27.132sec	1.990	21
9	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 27.138sec	1.996	22
10	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 27.212sec	2.070	20
11	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 27.241sec	2.099	22
12	Daniel Ricciardo	STR - Ferrari	1min 27.471sec	2.329	23
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 28.005sec	2.863	11
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India - Mercedes	1min 28.027sec	2.885	26
15	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 28.163sec	3.021	22
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 28.654sec	3.512	28
17	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 28.819sec	3.677	23
18	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 28.995sec	3.853	9
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 29.231sec	4.089	21
20	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 30.896sec	5.754	18
21	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 31.235sec	6.093	24
22	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 31.268sec	6.126	23
23	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 31.418sec	6.276	12
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	1min 32.106sec	6.964	25