Australia GP: Webber tops practice 1

Mark Webber and Red Bull were fastest in opening free practice for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Webber's 1m26.831s, set on a new set of Pirelli's hard 'prime' tires on the final lap of the session ensured he fired an early shot to Vettel – the German ending up some 0.0327s behind after a late run of his own.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was third fastest, more than half a second behind Vettel, and ahead of Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in 4th.

These times are largely meaningless because the track was green and dusty in the first session.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Webber	Red Bull-Infiniti	1m26.831s	+0.000	20
2.	Vettel	Red Bull-Infiniti	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.	Heidfeld	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	–	–