It's 11 am. Drivers will have sixty minutes to polish up their regulations. The sky is covered. The ambient temperature and that of the track are identical (16°C). The rate of humidity is 75 % and the wind speed approaches 4,4 m.s.

Nick Heidfeld signs the best time of the morning (1'47"876). He outstrips Heikki Kovalainen and Fernando Alonso. Lewis Hamilton is fourth. Sebastian Vettel, sixth, fits between Ferrari drivers. Nico Rosberg is classified eighth. Nelsinho Piquet and Mark Webber close the walking of the top 10. Jarno Trulli is eleventh. Italian is followed by David Coulthard and Robert Kubiça. Sébastien Bourdais is fourteenth. Timo Glock fails in the fifteenth rank. Kazuki Nakajima appears to the sixteenth place. Force India and Honda occupies the last positions.