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Webber fastest in Australia first practice

"The first FP of 2011 season sees Webber on top"

2 min read•24 Mar '11

The Formula 1 season is officially go, go, go. Friday free practice saw the cars running for the first time in final race trim, and as expected Red Bull made a strong start. Home boy Mark Webber made the perfect start by going fastest in opening free practice and his world champion team-mate Sebastian Vettel was only slower by 0.03sec.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was third fastest, but was more than half a second behind Vettel. Rosberg put the Mercedes fourth but it was Rubens Barrichello who was the surprise package of the day; he put the Wiliams Cosworth combination as high up as fifth, ahead of even McLaren's Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.

The session didn't go well for the Indian drivers. Narain's car was still being put together, as was the other HRT, and Karun Chandhok hit the wall in the Lotus, as he exited the pits at the start of the session. He was on cold tyres and spun in a flash.

Position	Driver	Team	Time	Laps
1.	Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m26.831s +	20
2.	Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m27.158s + 0.327	19
3.	Alonso	Ferrari	1m27.749s + 0.918	20
4.	Rosberg	Mercedes	1m28.152s + 1.321	16
5.	Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m28.430s + 1.599	24
6	Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m28.440s + 1.609	29
7	Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m28.483s + 1.652	26
8	Schumacher	Mercedes	1m28.690s + 1.859	14
9	Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m28.725s+ 1.894	13
10	Petrov	Renault	1m28.765s + 1.93	15
11	Massa	Ferrari	1m28.842s + 2.011	20
12	Heidfled	Renault	1m28.928s + 2.097	14
13	Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1m29.314s + 2.483	19
14	Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m29.328s + 2.497	21
15	Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m29.403s + 2.572	24
16	Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m29.468s + 2.637	23
17	Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m29.643s + 2.812	18
18	Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m31.002s + 4.171	20
19	Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1m32.428s + 5.597	13
20	d’Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m35.282s + 8.451	17
21	Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1m35.289s + 8.458	15
22	Chandhok	Lotus-Cosworth	1:30.695 + 4.894	1
23	Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	NO Time
24	Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	No Time

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