German GP Friday and Saturday Practice Sessions Thread

[m schumy]

Good morning

First practice session of the day starts in about 2 hours I`m really looking forward to another racing weekend, hope there will be better results this weekend, not only in the race but also during Qualy.

[vcs316]

Good Morning

Hope Lady Luck smiles our way this weekend

[m schumy]

Weather forecast for the weekend

Forecast Summary:

(PPN = Precipitation)

Emphasis: Wet running expected at times, Fri-Sat. Wettest conditions will be Thursday PM. Showers expected Friday, becoming frequent & heavier later; also further patchy spells of rain / showers on Saturday to give damp conditions at times. The race is expected to be dry or largely so with a small chance of afternoon showers.

Friday: Variable cloud cover, with showers at times, becoming more frequent, heavier and possibly thundery into the afternoon, evening and overnight. Best chance of dry running is for FP1. Chance of PPN 80%. Max 24C. Wind light WNW.

Saturday: Variable (and at times rather extensive) cloud cover, with showers or spells of intermittent light rain likely at times albeit less prospect of extensively wet conditions compared to Friday. Chance of PPN 50%. Max 23C. Wind light NW.

Sunday: Variable cloud cover, with some sunny spells and convective cloud building during the afternoon. Low chance of afternoon showers, but on balance dry conditions are expected for the race. Chance of PPN 30%. Max 23C. Wind light NNW.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/weather/i...recast-g.shtml

[Grinsomx]

good morning everyone, after a terrible week i hope we can have a good weekend.

[Sempre_Ferrari]

Buon giorno a tutti

Looking forward to a good weekend....let hope all the hype over the upgrades this weekend pans out

[m schumy]

Live streaming: http://eplsite.com/stream1.html

[Kingdom Hearts]

Uh, is raining right now, that's not good for us. We need a dry track to test everything properly.

[m schumy]

Looks like we are set for a rainy session

[Greig]

Hopefully we do some good running even in the wet good for the engines anyway lol

[Mitra]

anyone have an english stream?

[Raz]

Morning all

[m schumy]

anyone have an english stream?

Sorry, can`t find any

[Greig]

LOL Crofty praising Chandok's F1 knowledge cause he said Fangio won 2 titles.......

[johncnet]

in wet what there are trying to do , to test what

[Raz]

in wet what there are trying to do , to test what

Set up?

[vcs316]

Massa clocks a 1m34.429s to go fourth quickest.

[johncnet]

Set up?

yes setup in wet race, how about if sunday dry race it getting no way the setup today.

[johncnet]

massa P1

[vcs316]

Massa is now fastest with a 1:31.981 but is beaten immediately by Webber on a 1:31.019.

[vcs316]

Rosberg goes fastest with a 1:30.864, a dryish line is starting to appear but it is still very wet out there, especially off line.

Felipe Massa edges to within a fraction of the benchmark time with a lap of 1m30.894s.

[Ste]

Spin for Felipe. Just shows how easily the car can get away from you. Small bump and bang!

[vcs316]

Current top 10

1 Nico Rosberg
2 Nico Hülkenberg
3 Felipe Massa
4 Adrian Sutil
5 Mark Webber
6 Jaime Alguersuari
7 Kamui Kobayashi
8 Sébastien Buemi
9 Tonio Liuzzi
10 Sebastian Vettel

[vcs316]

Felipe Massa has a wild spin in his Ferrari after clipping the painted kerb at Turn 3. The Brazilian resumes without damage.

Massa has a huge 360 degree spin coming out of turn three. He stamped on the throttle coming onto the straight and the car stepped out on him very violently. No damage to the car but a little reminder of how tricky the conditions are at the moment.

[Ste]

And another off for Massa, this time through the gravel and nearly creaming the wall. Yikes.

[vcs316]

Kubica is off the track in the gravel in the stadium section, he just ran wide into the banked turn 13. And Massa has a copycat accident at the same point. No damage to the cars.

[Mitra]

Rubens did a little drift there

[Ste]

Here comes Alonso! Goes P1 by just over 6 tenths.

[Ste]

Button saying the balance is awful. Understeer into most Apex's but generally its 'very pointy'.

Glad to hear the McLaren is working well

[vcs316]

Alonso puts his Ferrari on top of the times with a benchmark time of 1m30.229s.

[vcs316]

Button saying the balance is awful. Understeer into most Apex's but generally its 'very pointy'.

Glad to hear the McLaren is working well

Button improves to 14th but reports "terrible" rear stability, which will be a worry for the team as it evaluates the new diffuser.