By Emma Aitken
August 1 2008

Ferrari went from a 1-2 finish this morning to droping down to fifth and sixth this afternoon. Hamilton and Kovalainen traded the top lap times before Hamilton got the job done with a time of 1m.20.554s. Piquet put in a blinding lap to finally split the two McLarens to finish in second.

The morning session went to Ferrari but the afternoon belonged to McLaren with Hamilton topping the time sheets.

 Kovalainen had spent most of the session very close behind his team mate until Piquet came out on the super-soft tyres, put in a superb lap, and claimed second place in his Renault.

 For most of the session the two McLarens traded to top lap time before the Brit finally capped it with a time of 1m20.554s.

 Alonso put in yet another strong performance to finish the afternoon in fourth, leaving the Ferrari’s of Raikkonen and Massa fifth and sixth behind him respectively.

 The BMW’s followed on behind the Ferraris. Heidfeld finished seventh, complaining throughout the second half of the session that it was ‘nearly impossible to say anything about the balance’ of his car because of the dusty surface and tyre graining problems. 

Toyota’s Trulli and Williams’ Rosberg completed the top ten.   

	Driver	Team	Time
1	Hamilton	McLaren	1m20.554
2	Piquet	Renault	1m20.748
3	Kovalainen	McLaren	1m20.760
4	Alonso	Renault	1m20.928
5	Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m21.009
6	Massa	Ferrari	1m21.010
7	Heidfeld	BMW	1m21.138
8	Kubica	BMW	1m21.363
9	Trulli	Toyota	1m21.505
10	Rosberg	Williams	1m21.581
11	Glock	Toyota	1m21.662
12	Webber	Red Bull Racing	1m21.733
13	Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	1m21.837
14	Nakajima	Williams	1m21.902
15	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1m21.955
16	Button	Honda	1m22.150
17	Fisichella	Force India	1m22.197
18	Sutil	Force India	1m22.358
19	Barrichello	Honda	1m22.448
20	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1m22.945