| 13:52:04
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and coverage of the second 90-minute Friday free practice session. |
| 13:53:04
| Rain this morning ensured all by the final 15 minutes of running was conducted on rain tyres. A drying line had formed in the closing stages and it was Felipe Massa who set the pace with a best lap of 1:17.553s, two tenths clear of Robert Kubica. The times were changing by the lap and in general, those to take the chequered flag last, emerged with times higher up the timesheet. |
| 13:54:51
| Heikki Kovalainen was third fastest for McLaren Mercedes ahead of Nick Heidfeld, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, David Coulthard, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso. |
| 13:57:07
| Toyota ran both Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli a great deal in the wet and then drying conditions and will have a lot of data should the weather remain changeable over the remainder of the weekend. At the other end of the scale, Ferrari did not run at all in the first hour of the session. |
| 13:59:23
| It is dry and cloudy ahead of the session. The earlier dampness has now dried up. |
| 14:00:08
| The session is now underway. |
| 14:00:34
| No one is lining up to head straight out so we have an empty track for the time being. |
| 14:00:57
| Now BMW Sauber send out Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld. |
| 14:01:14
| Vettel and Glock follow for STR and Toyota. |
| 14:01:35
| Others are now heading out with just over a minute of the session completed. |
| 14:01:59
| Kubica is warming his harder dry tyres on his out lap. |
| 14:03:30
| 15 of the 20 runners are on track. Coulthard pitted after an out lap. |
| 14:04:02
| Heidfeld sets the initial pace from Glock, Kubica and Vettel. |
| 14:04:25
| Alonso is on track using the softer option tyre. |
| 14:04:56
| Alonso locks his brakes and skips over the final chicane. |
| 14:05:29
| Only Massa, Raikkonen and Sutil not on track. |
| 14:05:51
| Kubica is now fastest at this early stage from Heidfeld, Alonso and Glock |
| 14:06:08
| Lewis Hamilton moves fastest. Raikkonen is now on track. |
| 14:07:34
| Alonso has a spin at the second turn after catching a slower car. He gets going again. |
| 14:08:14
| Hamilton is just a fraction slower on his next lap as Heidfeld improves to second ahead of Webber and Kubica |
| 14:08:46
| Hamilton pits his McLaren. |
| 14:09:33
| Raikkonen's first lap is a slow one. |
| 14:10:17
| Hamilton remains fastest with Kubica now second ahead of Alonso and Rosberg. Raikkonen locks his brakes and does not make the final turn. |
| 14:10:35
| Massa is the final driver to head out. |
| 14:11:50
| A practice pitstop for Heidfeld as the team use a set of full wets for the test. |
| 14:12:26
| Kovalainen has now moved to the top of the timesheets with Raikkonen now second ahead of Hamilton. |
| 14:12:46
| Most of the early runners are returning to the pits. |
| 14:13:06
| Massa is P4 after his first timed lap. |
| 14:14:10
| Honda are currently slowest at the bottom of the timesheets. |
| 14:14:37
| Raikkonen is now P1 ahead of Kovalainen. Massa is on a good lap too. |
| 14:15:47
| Massa's lap moves him to the top of the timesheets ahead of Massa and the McLaren duo. |
| 14:16:49
| Now Raikkonen retakes the fastest time as they trade best laps. |
| 14:17:39
| A big lock up from Piquet (12th) into the hairpin. |
| 14:19:56
| Hamilton improves and splits the Ferrari duo. Massa has pitted. |
| 14:20:20
| Nakajima is out on the softer tyre in his Williams. |
| 14:22:58
| Nakajima's soft run does nothing as he remains 16th. |
| 14:24:37
| A spin for Jarno Trulli. He has had plenty of those today. |
| 14:26:15
| Nakajima did make a small gain on his next lap but just two positions as Heidfeld runs too deep into the hairpin and loses time. |
| 14:26:59
| Next time around Heidfeld picks up four spots to move sixth. |
| 14:27:47
| Kovalainen (4th) is on soft tyres now. |
| 14:28:15
| Another gain next time around for Heidfeld who is now fourth. |
| 14:29:41
| Webber makes an error under braking and loses time at the hairpin. |
| 14:30:22
| Fisichella (17th) gets a slide through the final turn. |
| 14:31:14
| Heidfeld gets very close to Raikkonen's best and is now second fastest. |
| 14:33:23
| Heidfled has pitted his BMW Sauber. |
| 14:34:52
| Massa is up to third while Button has improved but remains slowest. |
| 14:37:51
| Piquet has pulled to a stop on entry into the pit lane. His rear brakes are smoking. |
| 14:39:00
| Piquet was 16th and he is being pushed back to the Renault pit. |
| 14:40:06
| The Renault is now being wheeled away. No more smoke, so perhaps a different problem. |
| 14:40:48
| Kubica has picked up a position on the softer tyre. |
| 14:42:32
| Piquet is clearly not happy as he sits in the pit box with his crash helmet on talking to nobody. He is under pressure and could lose his seat. |
| 14:42:57
| Raikkonen short cuts the final turn. |
| 14:44:51
| No real changes in position at the moment. The drivers are pretty much tyre testing at this point on a Friday. |
| 14:45:10
| A gain from Bourdais who moves 11th. |
| 14:45:53
| Raikkonen moves ahead of Massa and is now fastest. |
| 14:47:11
| Glock moves P11 just behind team-mate Trulli. |
| 14:48:10
| Button gets himself off P20 as he improves to 16th. Looks like a tough weekend ahead for Honda. |
| 14:49:24
| Rosberg makes some progress and moves seventh just ahead of Nakajima who is giving him a run for his money again this weekend. |
| 14:49:58
| Massa went out and completed a lap and pitted again. |
| 14:52:58
| Alonso remains on track but is making no progress from 15th at the moment. |
| 14:54:50
| A small gain from Kobalainen as he moves ahead of Kubica. Jarno Trulli (11th) is trying the soft tyres now. |
| 14:55:17
| The fastest four are in the pits. |
| 14:58:25
| Alonso has spun and stalled. |
| 14:58:56
| The yellows are out for Alonso's Renault. |
| 15:00:07
| Meanwhile a brush with the wall for Kubica as he improved to third. Alonso spun again at the second turn and his car is being craned away. |
| 15:01:23
| Alonso is walking back to the pits after spinning and stalling. He will join Piquet on the sidelines for the time being. |
| 15:02:18
| A poor session for Renault who have both cars out of action at the moment. |
| 15:03:08
| Kubica has picked off another position and is now second behind Raikkonen and pushing hard. |
| 15:03:21
| Most of the front runners are back out now. |
| 15:04:39
| Hamilton chases one of the BMWs across the line and forced the driver into a mistake into turn one. Good to know for race day. |
| 15:05:05
| It must have been Heidfeld as Kubica is now fastest for BMW Sauber. |
| 15:06:46
| Timo Glock has pulled off with front right suspension damage. He must have clipped the wall. He is climbing out of the Toyota and was 13th. |
| 15:07:49
| Glock is out of the car and that is the end of his session. He did brush the wall at turn four. |
| 15:09:49
| Kimi Raikkonen is back out in his Ferrari and looking to improve. |
| 15:10:51
| Kubica remains fastest and had pitted. |
| 15:11:16
| A small gain for Nico Rosberg who is now seventh. |
| 15:12:56
| Felipe Massa has now pulled his Ferrari off and onto the grass with a mechanical problem. He was on the soft tyre and was on the back straight. |
| 15:13:44
| It looks like a hydralic problem for Massa who was fifth fastest. |
| 15:14:51
| So we have four retirements now. Piquet, Alonso, Glock and Massa. |
| 15:15:21
| The Ferrari is now being pushed out of the way so the yellow flags can be taken down. |
| 15:16:55
| The marshals are making a mess of getting the car off track. It has a poor turning circle and they have it sort of wedged between two barriers. A 20 point turn and they will get it done. |
| 15:21:01
| Less than ten minutes remain. Hamilton is back out and on a good lap on the soft tyre. |
| 15:21:26
| Hamilton moves fastest, two-tenths ahead of Kubica. |
| 15:23:25
| Hamilton backs off on his next lap. Team-mate Kovalainen is back out. In fact most of the front runners are on track. |
| 15:24:21
| Vettel has had a good session. He remains in the top ten in his STR3. |
| 15:27:35
| Webebr spins his Red Bull but is able to resume. |
| 15:28:00
| Two minutes remain. |
| 15:29:11
| Raikkonen is on the soft tyre but caks off on this lap. |
| 15:29:54
| Webber makes a big gain and is now seventh. |
| 15:30:05
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 15:30:47
| All the remaining runners on track, but no one looking like they can beat Hamilton's best time. |
| 15:31:11
| A good lap from Fisichella moves him 14th in his Force India. |
| 15:32:03
| So Hamilton tops Friday practice by nearly three-tenths from Kubica, Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Massa, Heidfeld, Webber, Rosberg, Vettel and Trulli. |
