It's 3:00 am in France and 10:00 am to Fuji. The sun is for the meeting. The ambient temperature is of 22°C. The track shows the 29°C. The rate of humidity approaches the 60 %. The wind speed is raised enough (3 m.s). Drivers have ninety minutes in this first session of practice.

Lewis Hamilton seizes of pole position at 10:59 am. Neither Ferrari nor even his team-mate will succeed in dislodging him from his rank. At 11:30 am, he receives the flag with checkerboard in leader (1'18"910). Felipe Massa is second in front of Heikki Kovalainen and Kimi Räikkönen. Renault is in shape and show it by completing this top 6. Robert Kubiça, eighth, is inserted between Toro Rosso drivers (advantage for Sebastian Vettel). In one minute of the end, Kazuki Nakajima invites himself in ten first ones. The local hero flirted with the twentieth position until here. The surprise of the morning is signed Adrian Sutil with the eleventh time. The Bavarian is followed by Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber. Nick Heidfeld is only fourteenth. The Toy boys and the team of Brackley monopolize the bottom of the grid (of the 15th place at the 18th). David Coulthard and Giancarlo Fisichella are the good last ones.