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Mixed conditions in Practice 3. Kubica struggles
By BMW Sauber F1 Team July 6 2008
In the Saturday morning practice session of the British GP weekend, the BMW Sauber F1 Team successfully completed its preparations for the race and qualifying. In changeable conditions, Nick Heidfeld finished 15th, with Robert Kubica having to settle for 19th.
The third practice session at Silverstone began under overcast skies on a damp track. But over the course of the 60 minutes conditions improved consistently. These changeable conditions offered the BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers the opportunity of completing stints on both wet and dry weather tyres.

For the first time in quite a while, Nick proved to be the faster of the two BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers. The German completed a total of three stints comprising 22 laps, thus being the busiest driver of the session - together with Force India's Adrian Sutil. On his 20th lap, Nick set his personal best time of 1:22.916 minutes, thus securing 15th position on the time sheets.

His team-mate, Robert, wasn't too happy with the handling of his BMW Sauber F1.08, particularly in the first half of the session. On the wet track, he complained of oversteer and was unable to match the pace of his team-mate. Later in the session, however, on the drying track, he succeeded in reducing the gap to Nick but failed to close in on him completely. At the end of the day, Robert clocked a personal fastest lap time of 1:23.282 minutes and had to settle for finishing 19th.

In the qualifying session beginning at 13:00hrs BST (14:00hrs CEST), the BMW Sauber F1 Team drivers will give their very best to secure positions at the front end on the grid which should offer them the chance of adding more points to the BMW Sauber F1 Team's tally.

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