| 10:50:18
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and live coverage of the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend, the second round of the 2008 championship. The one hour Saturday morning practice session gets underway shortly. |
| 10:52:41
| Lewis Hamilton topped the Friday time sheets with a best lap of 1:35.055s around the Sepang circuit. Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen were close behind for Ferrari while Massa in particular was able to lap consistently right on the pace. The battle for Pole Position later on today should be close... |
| 10:54:41
| Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel were a surprise fourth and fifth fastest yesterday for Honda and Toro Rosso Ferrari yesterday. Button admits it was very much a low fuel run but it was encouraging for the team anyway. |
| 10:56:31
| Jarno Trulli was sixth fastest for Toyota and seemed strong throughout the three hours of Friday running while Heikki Kovalainen has yet to show his hand in P7. Robert Kubica, Giancarlo Fisichella and Kazuke Nakajima rounded out the top ten. |
| 10:58:30
| The big story on Friday was the folding suspension on David Coulthard’s Red Bull Renault. After suffering a steering problem, Coulthard ran wide and across some low kerbing. The impact was not particularly harsh but the suspension failed on both the front right and left of the RB4 sending Coulthard sailing helplessly into the gravel. The team had to explain themselves to the stewards. |
| 11:00:05
| Practice session three in now underway. |
| 11:01:09
| The first drivers head out. Most will complate an installtion lap and pit. The cars are now fitted with race engines and gearboxes so any failure could result in a grid position penalty. |
| 11:01:24
| Most have gone straight out. |
| 11:02:49
| The early runners are all returning to the pit. Button, Barrichello, Davidson and Hamilton yet to go out. |
| 11:04:08
| The Red Bull duo are on track today, so the stewards must be relatively happy with the team's explination of the failure yesterday. |
| 11:05:02
| No one on track. |
| 11:05:33
| Hamilton heads out in his McLaren to complete his installation lap. |
| 11:08:03
| Nakajima, tenth fastest yesterday, will take a ten position penalty into the Grand Prix, having run into the back of Kubica while behind the safety car in Melbourne. |
| 11:08:58
| Timo Glock heads out in his Toyota. He was 17th fastest yesterday. |
| 11:09:28
| Davidson is on his installation lap. |
| 11:10:46
| Glock is on his first timed lap of the session. His best lap yesterday was a 1:37.5s |
| 11:11:13
| Team-mate Trulli, Bourdais and Sato join the action. |
| 11:12:45
| Glocks's first timed lap is two seconds off his Friday best. Nick Heidfeld is on track and we have yet to see the speed expected from BMW Sauber. |
| 11:13:09
| Adrian Sutil heads out. |
| 11:13:35
| Glock improves his own best time by 1.4s. |
| 11:13:53
| Trulli moves fastest ahead of his Toyota team-mate. |
| 11:14:37
| Jenson Button got straight into his stint without pitting for checks. |
| 11:15:32
| Hedifeld moves fastest, just a tenth off his Friday best on his very first flying lap. |
| 11:16:20
| Kubica takes over at the top with Trulli improving to second ahead of Heidfeld. The lap times are coming down by the lap. |
| 11:16:39
| Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa are on track. |
| 11:17:18
| Rosberg and Kovalainen on track. |
| 11:18:26
| Changes at the top as Rosberg is now fastest from Trulli and Heidfeld. |
| 11:18:37
| Raikkonen is on a fast lap. |
| 11:19:28
| Raikkonen's first lap is a 1:38.9, impressive. |
| 11:19:53
| Massa slots in second in his Ferrari ahead of Rosberg and Button. |
| 11:21:05
| Kovalainen's first laps have not been fast. He is slowest of those to have posted a time so far. |
| 11:21:28
| The Ferrari duo both improve next time around. |
| 11:21:52
| Piquet has moved fourth fastest ahead of Fisichella. |
| 11:23:04
| Vettel is now P4 in his STR. |
| 11:24:28
| Massa takes over at the top from Raikkonen, Rosberg, Piquet and Vettel. |
| 11:26:16
| Massa improves by two tenths as Raikkonen pits and Piquet moves third fastest in his Renault. |
| 11:27:20
| Webber vaults third fastest. Kovalainen must be working on race setup as he is some way down the order. No sign yet of Hamilton in the sister MP4-23. |
| 11:27:54
| Gains from Nakajima and Piquet as they move behind the leading Ferrari duo. |
| 11:28:09
| Hamilton heads out. |
| 11:31:06
| Hamilton runs off track on his first timed lap. He regains the circuit and continues. |
| 11:31:58
| Webber regains the third position. Massa and Raikkonen are both in the pits. |
| 11:33:38
| Hamilton is now P6 in his McLaren. |
| 11:34:47
| The increasingly impressive Vettel is now third fastest ahead of Webber, Nakajima, Piquet and Hamilton. |
| 11:35:29
| Alonso is down the order at the moment in 17th. As we suspected yesterday, he did have problems with second gear in the afternoon session. |
| 11:36:21
| Raikkonen and Kovalainen are back out. |
| 11:36:44
| Now Massa is out too. |
| 11:39:35
| A hot lap from Coulthard moves him fourth in the Red Bull Renault. |
| 11:40:30
| Massa and Raikkonen both gain a tenth on that last lap as Vettel runs wide. |
| 11:43:08
| In the same session in Australia, McLaren and Ferrari were both outside the top ten and BMW Sauber dominated. This looks like it will be another session that tells us little. |
| 11:43:53
| Piquet is showing well though as he is now third. |
| 11:44:37
| Glock and Trulli move Toyota into the top ten. |
| 11:46:04
| Webber is now third in the Red Bull. Some will be trying simulated qualifying runs, some not. |
| 11:48:15
| Button and Hamilton both make gains and are now fifth and seventh. |
| 11:50:45
| Barrichello is way down the order in 21st and has only completed a few laps. His car is being worked on by the Honda team. |
| 11:52:10
| Most are in the pits ahead of one final run. Jarno Trulli is on track looking to move up from P11. |
| 11:52:48
| Davidson moves ahead of Barrichello who has problems with his Honda. |
| 11:53:33
| Trulli does not improve as he heads to the pit. |
| 11:53:51
| Six minutes remain. |
| 11:55:31
| Heidfeld is just 19th as he heads back out. Massa, Raikkonen, Webber and others taking to the circuit once again. |
| 11:57:27
| Heidfeld moves from 19th to first with the fastest lap of the weekend to date. |
| 11:57:51
| Rosberg has been in the pits a long time... |
| 11:58:15
| All on track but Rosberg, Barrichello and Bourdais. |
| 11:58:53
| Trulli moves fourth for Toyota. |
| 11:59:44
| Massa pits, his session is over. |
| 12:00:03
| Piquet is on a fast lap as is team-mate Alonso. |
| 12:00:07
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 12:01:10
| Piquet backs off. Alonso moves 12th. |
| 12:01:38
| Now Coulthard takes over sixth position. |
| 12:01:43
| The order seems set. |
| 12:02:18
| Heidfeld fastest from Raikkonen, Massa, Trulli, Webber, Coulthard, Piquet, Button, Vettel and Glock. |
| 12:02:36
| Another inconclusive Saturday morning. |
