Surprises At Bahrain GP Practice Session

Adrian Sutil in his Force India posted the quickest time in the Friday practice session.

With limited practice sessions in the run-up to the 2010 Formula One season, the best indicator of form will be the Friday practice sessions.

And what a surprise it was for F1 fans when Adrian Sutil topped the timing sheets after 18 laps on the Bahrain circuit in the morning’s practice session. The Force India driver posted some solid results last year, and he and the team are looking to continue the improvements from 2009.

Sutil’s time of 1:56.583 was just 0.2 of a second quicker than Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, the man all F1 watchers are picking to set the early pace this season.

Robert Kubica in his Renault was third, followed by the second Ferrari driver, Felipe Massa, in fourth spot.

Other hot favourites, the McLaren duo of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, posted the fifth and sixth fastest times respectively, with not much to split the dueling British duo.

And where, you’re probably asking, was Michael Schumacher in his Mercedes? The 40-year-old German posted the 10th fastest time, and he was surprisingly pipped by his teammate Nico Rosberg in eighth.

More results are expected in the second practice session.