It's 10 am, drivers get ready to run for the first time on this plan. Usually, Friday morning is rather boring. Valencia is new and teams will exploite completely the ninety minutes of practice. The sun is for the meeting. There are 28°C in the air and 30°C on the track. The rate of humidity approaches the 61 %. The wind speed is weak (1 m.s).

In the last seconds, Sebastian Vettel takes back the best time to Felipe Massa (1'40"496). The Brazilian is second in front of Lewis Hamilton. Sébastien Bourdais is an exceptional fourth. Heikki Kovalainen is classified fifth. Robert Kubiça is the sixth. Kimi Räikkönen is relegated to seventh position. Kazuki Nakajima is a shine eighth. Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg close the walking of this top 10. Rubens Barrichello occupies the eleventh rank. He's followed by Jarno Trulli's Toyota. Adrian Sutil hoists his Force India on the thirteenth place. It's a great performance of the young German driver. Timo Glock is fourteenth. Nelsinho Piquet fails on the fifteenth place. Nick Heidfeld, sixteenth, seems to have met some problems. Jenson Button is in bottom of grid with Giancarlo Fisichella and Red Bull drivers.