GERMAN GRAND PRIX - FREE PRACTICE
FRIDAY 18 JULY, 2008
The AT&T Williams team had a workmanlike day of practice
at the Hockenheimring in Germany today, aside from a misfire
which cost Kazuki Nakajima some track time in the afternoon
session. On his familiar home circuit, Nico Rosberg ran comfortably
inside the top seven all day, with Kazuki’s best of
the day recorded in the morning session which he concluded
in P9.
Nico Rosberg: During the pre-race test here
last week, we have some mechanical updates to make our aero
package work more effectively. This circuit definitely suits
us a bit better, so we can look forward to a better weekend
than recently. Out on the track today it was pretty windy
and on the straights I was being buffeted from side to side.
However, we managed a good tyre test even though our decisions
may change with the rain we are expecting. If the bad weather
does come, it’s no problem as we seem to go well in
the rain.
Kazuki Nakajima: The morning practice didn’t
go too badly and we had both wet and dry running, which is
good preparation for the weather we are likely to see here.
However it wasn’t a great afternoon as we lost quite
a lot of time with a problem on the car. By the time we had
fixed this, everybody out on track had moved on to doing their
long runs and it was very difficult to find free space on
the circuit, so it was difficult to see exactly where we ended
the day.
Sam Michael, Technical Director: It was
a fairly standard day on Nico’s car. On Kazuki’s
car we had a misfire in the afternoon session. We changed
quite a few parts and we believe we have got to the bottom
of it, so it shouldn’t happen again. Now it is just
a matter of looking at the data tonight to get ready for qualifying
tomorrow.
SESSION 1 SESSION 2
AIR TEMP 16- 170C 21 - 230C
TRACK TEMP 16 - 190C 24 - 360C
WEATHER Overcast Broken cloud
TOP 3
L Hamilton: 1:15.537
H Kovalainen: 1:15.666
F Massa: 1:15.796
L Hamilton: 1:15.025
F Massa: 1:15.722
K Raikkonen: 1:15.760
CHASSIS & ENGINE 1st SESSION 2nd SESSION
N ROSBERG FW30-05 / H322 1:16.606 (6th) 27 LAPS 1:16.355 (7th)
41 LAPS
K NAKAJIMA FW30-04 / H323 1:16.821 (9th) 26 LAPS 1:16.829
(17th) 21 LAPS
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