British GP: Both Williams drivers in top ten in FP1

The AT&T Williams team would come to Silverstone for the 2010 British Grand Prix with a heavily-revised FW32. The car would feature a blown diffuser as well as an F-duct system that would allow Nico Hulkenberg to use the device for the first time. The team was looking at using Friday to evaluate the new components. Both Williams drivers Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg would take to the track early to check the conditions.

The Silverstone circuit had a new layout and a lot of time was spent getting to grips with this as well as fine-tuning their set-ups. Several drivers would have problems with parts of the new circuit including a bump at the turn-in of the new Abbey right hander, and also with the slippery surface in the new Village loop. The bump at Abbey would cause problems as drivers experimented with different set-ups as they attempted to find the right setup for the quick right-hander.

Several drivers would have moments at Village including Nico, who would run wide. As the session progressed and forty seven minutes into it Rubens would move up the order to be fifth. Prior to this Rubens would run wide at the Becketts complex. Late in the session Rubens would move up to ninth with 1m:34.016s to be two places behind his team-mate Nico. At one stage during the session Nico was high as second but would drop down the order to be seventh, 1m:33.377, while Rubens would finish close behind in tenth, 1m:34.016.

An encouraging start for the Williams team with both drivers inside the top ten but still someway off the pace been set by the quickest drivers. It was also another session that would see Nico finish ahead of team-mate Rubens.

Pos  Driver         Team		   Time      Laps
 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:32.280  22
 2.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:32.614  16
 3.  Kubica         Renault                1:32.725  21
 4.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:32.747  23
 5.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:32.968  18
 6.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:33.318  21
 7.  Hulkenberg     AT&T Williams-Cosworth 1:33.377  19
 8.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:33.519  20
 9.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:33.955  18
10.  Barrichello    AT&T Williams-Cosworth 1:34.016  17
11.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:34.132  21
12.  Petrov         Renault                1:34.365  22
13.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:34.490  20
14.  di Resta       Force India-Mercedes   1:34.580  22
15.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:34.710  16
16.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:34.901  17
17.  Massa          Ferrari                1:35.037  21
18.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:35.318  27
19.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:36.747  16
20.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:37.330  11
21.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:37.518  15
22.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth           1:38.735  21
23.  Fauzy          Lotus-Cosworth         1:39.510  11
24.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth           1:39.673  27