Hamilton steals show in Malaysia
A top coach from Down Under has volunteered to coach our lasses who are getting ready to participate in a contest right here in Colombo during August this year for the all girl championship. These girls are training at an indoor stadium which is also used by some gymnasts. These gymnasts have a habit of doing their stunts right where the girls are practicing causing a lot of embarrassment to these girls. The coach from Down Under, who is coaching these girls for the sheer love she has for the game is now wondering whether it was a smart move to come all the way here to be treated like this.
SEPANG, Malaysia, March 24, 2012 (AFP) -Britain's Lewis Hamilton hogged the limelight Friday as he topped both practice sessions at the Malaysian Grand Prix, making up in small part for his bitter disappointment in Melbourne.
Mclaren's 2008 world champion, who is yet to win at Sepang, scorched to 1min 38.021sec in the morning drive and he again led the way on a stifling afternoon with a time of 1:38.172.
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, whose Mercedes has drawn attention for its innovative “W- duct” rear wing, was 0.361 adrift in the second session with Mclaren's Jenson Button, the season's early points leader, third.
Schumacher's team-mate Nico Rosberg placed fourth with Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo fifth. Ferrari's double world champion Fernando Alonso was sixth ahead of Red Bull driver Mark Webber.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who swept to his second straight world title last year, had a quiet afternoon and wound up 10th, 1.23sec off Hamilton's pace.
Hamilton qualified quickest at last week's season- opener in Australia but he eventually had to settle for third behind Button and Vettel, frustrating his bid to seize early control of the championship.
On a typically hot, overcast afternoon with temperatures of 31 degrees Celsius (88 Fahrenheit), Hamilton was quickly at the top of the field with a time of 1:38.921 inside the first 20 minutes. Ricciardo turned heads as he bettered Hamilton's time by seven hundredths of a second, while Webber and Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen narrowly avoided touching wheels as they duelled on a tight right-hander.