WilliamsF1 German GP 2nd Friday Practice

Both drivers would have moments during the session with Ralf spinning off at the second turn and then Juan Pablo having a high speed off at the tricky Agip Kurve. Juan Pablo would also have problems with his helmet requiring him to return to the pits. Even though fifth and seventh looks fairly respective both Ralf and Juan Pablo are a considerable margin behind the Ferrari's.

Juan Pablo commented on the session by saying: "There's still some job to do on the balance of my car. We spent the session learning the track and adjusting it to the new course but still I am not very comfortable here. During the sessions we concentrated also on tyre evaluation, which we need to be very careful about. At the end of the session I was doing a long run but I had a problem with the visor of my helmet which wasn't sealing perfectly and I had to abort the run and come back into the pits to have the helmet replaced."

The second session would see the Ferrari drivers swap positions with Michael Schumacher setting the fastest time with a lap of 1m:16.086, this was just over a tenth of a second faster than Barrichello's morning time. Rubens did not improve so dropped to second.

McLaren drivers finished with third and fourth fastest times with Kimi Raikkonen ahead of David Coulthard respectively. Both drivers were within four-tenths of a second of Schumacher’s best time while Ralf Schumacher took the fifth fastest time for BMW Williams.

In an improving Jaguar Eddie Irvine would set the sixth fastest time just one second off the ultimate pace. Team-mate Pedro de la Rosa would miss the first third of this session while the mechanics completed an engine change after an earlier blow-up. He could only manage fifteenth.

For Sauber's Felipe Massa he would spend a lot of his time spinning off the track, losing his front wing on his final run, but he finished in eighth. Team-mate Nick Heidfeld was thirteenth. For Toyota Allan McNish set the ninth fastest nine places ahead of team-mate Mika Salo, while Heinz-Harald Frentzen was tenth in the Arrows just one hundredth of a second ahead of Enrique Bernoldi.

After an encouraging first session BAR's Olivier Panis, setting the third fastest time, his car would suffer a gearbox problem leaving him stranded out on the track. He would drop down to twelfth. team-mate Villeneuve was half a second slower down in seventeenth.

For Jordan Takuma Sato headed Giancarlo Fisichella with fourteenth fastest time and Fisichella down in sixteenth fastest after suffering an engine failure. For Renault they are really struggling to set competitive times with Button and Trulli down in nineteenth and twentieth positions. The final two positions were occupied by Webber and Yoong in their Minardi's. Yoong would beach his car on the kerb and have to be pushed off by the marshalls.