Felipe Massa crashed heavily into the tyre wall after spinning off the track. It looks like the cause was some oil dropped by Alonso after his engine failed at the same place a while earlier. The sesion was red flagged to deal with the debris but Massa walked away OK.
It is very close between Ferrari and McLaren. Despite his crash Massa remained at the top of the timesheets after P1, but Kovailainen was only 0.012s and Hamilton 0.048s behind … Raikkonen, Kubica, both Renaults, Vettel, Coulthard and Rosberg were the others in top 10.
Massa’s car has benn fixed and he could take part in the later part of the practice 2. P2 was dominated by McLaren and Red Bull. Heikki Kovalainen posted the fastest time ahead of Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton and David Couthard. Ferraris did not do too well. But Raikkonen looked like being on different program than the P2 front runners and Massa’s slower times might have had somethung to do with his later entry into the session.
Friday Practice 1 Times:
1. F. Massa – Ferrari – 1:19.575
2. H. Kovalainen – McLaren – 1:19.587
3. L. Hamilton – McLaren – 1:19.623
4. K. Raikkonen – Ferrari – 1:19.948
5. R. Kubica – BMW Sauber – 1:20.367
6. F. Alonso – Renault – 1:20.436
7. S. Vettel – Toro Rosso – 1:20.588
8. N. Piquet – Renault – 1:20.653
9. D. Coulthard – Red Bull – 1:20.698
10. N. Rosberg – Williams – 1:20.744
11. M. Webber – Red Bull – 1:20.008
12. T. Glock – Toyota – 1:21.102
13. N. Heidfeld – BMW Sauber – 1:21.107
14. S. Bourdais – Toro Rosso – 1:21.166
15. J. Trulli – Toyota – 1:21.265
16. K. Nakajima – Williams – 1:21.282
17. J. Button – Honda – 1:21.901
18. A. Sutil – Force India – 1:22.169
19. G. Fisichella – Force India – 1:22.219
20. R. Barrichello – Honda – 1:24.123
Friday Practice 2 Times:
1. H. Kovalainen – McLaren – 1:19.989
2. M. Webber – Red Bull – 1:20.520
3. L. Hamilton – McLaren – 1:20.543
4. D. Coulthard – Red Bull – 1:20.589
5. N. Rosberg – Williams – 1:20.748
6. S. Vettel – Toro Rosso – 1:20.805
7. J. Button – Honda – 1:20.929
8. F. Massa – Ferrari – 1:20.943
9. K. Nakajima – Williams – 1:20.985
10. R. Barrichello – Honda – 1:21.002
11. R. Kubica – BMW Sauber – 1:21.023
12. K. Raikkonen – Ferrari – 1:21.275
13. N. Heidfeld – BMW Sauber – 1:21.453
14. T. Glock – Toyota – 1:21.472
15. F. Alonso – Renault – 1:21.511
16. G. Fisichella – Force India – 1:21.520
17. S. Bourdais – Toro Rosso – 1:21.634
18. N. Piquet – Renault – 1:21.642
19. A. Sutil – Force India – 1:21.756
20. J. Trulli – Toyota – 1:22.196
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