(Renault Sport F1)
Renault Sport F1 finished this afternoon's Free Practice session with two cars in the top ten as home town favourite Daniil Kvyat finished this afternoon's session in as the fastest time of the Renault powered team's ending the day in eighth place finishing the session just ahead of the man he will replace at Infiniti Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel who was in 9th.
Jean Eric Vergne in the second Toro Rosso rounded out the top ten.
Daniel Ricciardo had a difficult second session despite finishing the session in 13th place as the Australian suffered a power unit failure in the closing stages of the session bringing out the red flag.
The Lotus F1 Team's Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado finished the session in 16th and 17th place respectively. The Caterham F1 Team finished the session in 19th for Marcus Ericsson while team mate Kamui Kobayashi finished the session in 21st place in the second Caterham.
Renault Sport F1 Head of Trackside Operations Remi Taffin stated:
'‘Great start for Scuderia Toro Rosso’
Jean Eric Vergne in the second Toro Rosso rounded out the top ten.
Daniel Ricciardo had a difficult second session despite finishing the session in 13th place as the Australian suffered a power unit failure in the closing stages of the session bringing out the red flag.
The Lotus F1 Team's Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado finished the session in 16th and 17th place respectively. The Caterham F1 Team finished the session in 19th for Marcus Ericsson while team mate Kamui Kobayashi finished the session in 21st place in the second Caterham.
Renault Sport F1 Head of Trackside Operations Remi Taffin stated:
'‘Great start for Scuderia Toro Rosso’
There were a lot of encouraging signs today, especially as most of our Power Units were running old parts or coming to the end of their cycles. That was certainly the case with Daniel Ricciardo’s PU, which was safely stopped on track. There’s no fundamental problem to worry about there, but we’ll still check to find out if there’s any potential issues.
Toro Rosso’s form looks especially good. I know they’ve enjoyed a lot of trouble-free running today and also seem to have found a good set-up. If they can build on that tomorrow then I think both drivers have a fantastic chance of breaking into Q3.
Red Bull are probably a bit behind where they’d like to be, and you can be sure we’ll be assisting them this evening in helping to extract the car’s true pace. The Sochi circuit is unusual in having so many 90-degree corners, which can throw up some specific demands. But ultimately I fully expect them to be in podium contention on Sunday, especially as both of our factories are working flat-out to build on today’s track data and find the right car set-up.
Both Lotus and Caterham also had positive days, especially in FP2 after they’d verified their pre-event simulations.'
© Ben Johnston 2014
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