It's 10 am, the opening of the GP of Germany is given with this practice 1. The teams will have ninety minutes to find the adequate regulations and the best strategy. Drivers and engineers will have to deepen the data collected during three days by testing on the circuit of Hockenheim (from 8 till 10 July). The rain stopped but the track is diluted (16°C). The ambient temperature is of 17°C. The rate of humidity approaches the 81 % and the wind speed is of 2 m.s.

Lewis Hamilton seizes the best time in the last seconds (1'15"537). He outstrips Heikki Kovalainen and Felipe Massa. Fernando Alonso hoists his Renault in the fourth rank. Kimi Räikkönen is the only fifth. Nico Rosberg assures with the sixth position. Sebastian Vettel is seventh. Nick Heidfeld occupies the eighth place. He's followed by Kazuki Nakajima on second Williams and Nelsinho Piquet. Let us note that top 10 account three German on five subscribers in the championship. It's a good result !… David Coulthard is eleventh. Jenson Button is classified twelfth. Timo Glock, thirteenth, takes the influence on his team-mate (seventeenth). But Jarno Trulli seems to have been handicaped by technical problems at the end of session. Mark Webber is fourteenth. Rubens Barrichello sixteenth and Jarno Trulli are inserted between both Force India. Robert Kubiça and Sebastien Bourdais are good last ones. The first one gave up after an error and our manceau was forced to renonce because of technical problems.

To note : 10:05 am, Heikki Kovalainen goes out wide. 10:21 am, Lewis Hamilton makes an excursion in the herb. 11:00 am, Sébastien Bourdais immobilizes his STR-03 on the shoulder of the track. The manceau met a technical problem in the second sector. 11:11 am, Fernando Alonso leaves to the fault. 11:17 am, Robert Kubiça goes out of the track in the last bend before Stadium. Polish finishes his lap in the wall of tyres. He isn't hurt.