German Practice One: Both Williams drivers in top ten


Nico Rosberg
By Andrew Hooper
July 11 2009

The opening Friday practice session for the 2009 German GRand Prix would see both Williams drivers finish in the top ten with Nico Rosberg leading team-mate Kazuki Nakajima. The sesssion was run under cloudy conditions with rain affecting the sesssion. For Kazuki it would be his first run on the Nurburgring circuit while Nico would suffer from a difficulty in getting teperature in his tyres.

 
 German GP Friday 1st Practice
 

After a three week layoff and with AT&T Williams driver Nico Rosberg in front of his home crowd the Williams team would return to the Nürburgring circuit for the 2009 German Grand Prix. The opening Friday practice would be run under cloudy conditions with rain falling during the session. Bridgestone had supplied the super soft and medium tyres for the weekend.

With thirty minutes completed Nico would start a timed lap on hard, dry tyres. He would set a time of 1m40.702s to move into second place behind Fisichella. Nico would improve his time on his second lap of the circuit, setting a time of 1m38.531s.

With forty minutes of the session completed it was Trulli who was fastest with a time of 1m:36.146s, with Nico second, Raikkonen third, Kovalainen fourth and Kazuki in fifth place in his Williams. With the dry and overcast conditions continuing Webber would set the fastest time with a lap of 1m34.444s. Nico was now second to Webber with 1m:34.971. Nico would pit while at the front Webber would set a time of 1m:33.082s.

Kazuki was down in sixteenth place following improvements for other drivers, but he would improve to be tenth. He would improve with a 1m:34.504s but remained tenth. Kazuki would move up from eleventh to ninth with his final lap of the morning session, a 1m:33.952s. Nico would finish the session in seventh.
  
Pos  Driver       Team			    Time      Laps
 1.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:33.082  19
 2.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:33.463  18
 3.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:33.745  21
 4.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:33.795  23
 5.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:33.839  26
 6.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:33.840  23
 7.  Rosberg      AT&T Williams-Toyota  (B)  1:33.902  26
 8.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:33.909  13
 9.  Nakajima     AT&T Williams-Toyota  (B)  1:33.952  25
10.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:34.148  16
11.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:34.221  25
12.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:34.227  17
13.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:34.483  14
14.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:34.694  23
15.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:34.738  24
16.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:34.827  27
17.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:34.878  28
18.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:34.893  26
19.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:34.911  23
20.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:35.092  6