The first practice quarrelled under clouds but with pleasant temperatures (19°C in the air and 23°C on the track). Felipe Massa dominated the morning for the biggest pleasure of “Tifosis” present to Magny-Cours. The Brazilian signs the best time in 1'15"306. Ferrari driver is followed by “McLaren boys” and Kimi Räikkönen. Robert Kubiça is the fifth. Fernando Alonso is classified sixth but he abandoned three minutes before the end of the session ( hydraulic problem). Jarno Trulli is seventh. The top 10 is completed by Sebastian Vettel, Nick Heidfeld and Timo Glock. Mannschaft’s victory on Portuguese (3-2) seems to have on motivated this German trio. Joachim Löw said “Jogi”’s men are qualified in half finale of the Euro 2008… The chauvinism isn’t a typically French character !... It seems to touch also our neighbours of Outre-Rhin. In the passage of the camera, Nick Heidfeld exulted by shaking a scarf with the inscription “Deutschland”... Nelsinho Piquet is eleventh. The young man outstrips Red Bull drivers. Nico Rosbeg is only fourteenth. He withdraws at the bottom of his pit, the closed face, by discovering the results of this first round… Rubens Barrichello occupies the fifteenth rank. The end of the classification counts Sébastien Bourdais, Kazuki Nakajima, Jenson Button and Force India drivers.