| 13:50:52
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and live coverage of the Friday afternoon free practice session from Silverstone. |
| 13:52:42
| The big news this morning was the announcement that Donington Park will host the British Grand Prix from 2010 for ten years. The news will be a blow for Silverstone, but the fact remains the BRDC has been unable to find the finances required for ongoing improvements. |
| 13:55:04
| Back on track this morning and Felipe Massa set the pace with a best lap of 1:19.575s in his Ferrari before a heavy crash at Stowe as the Brazilian lost control on oil put down by Alonso’s Renault. The F2008 sustained substantial rear end damage. |
| 13:56:44
| Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton were second and third fastest for McLaren this morning, the fastest three all proving closely matched around the 5.141km circuit. Kimi Raikkonen was fourth fastest in the second Ferrari ahead of Robert Kubica. |
| 13:58:28
| Fernando Alonso will have a fresh Renault V8 fitted into his R28 this afternoon. He ended the morning session sixth fastest. |
| 14:00:06
| The second free practice session is now underway. A sunny warm afternoon at Silverstone. |
| 14:00:50
| Glock and Fisichella are straight out for Toyota and and Force India. |
| 14:01:18
| Kubica, Heidfeld and others follow out. |
| 14:02:08
| Over half of the field is straight out. |
| 14:04:20
| The first lap times are coming in as Rosberg is fastest from Kubica, Nakajima and Glock. |
| 14:05:24
| Alonso pitted after an installation lap with the new engine. |
| 14:06:12
| The times are changing rapidly as they all get into the first stint. Kovalainen now P1 ahead of Rosberg, Nakajima and Coulthard. |
| 14:08:06
| More changes as Rosberg takes over P1 ahead of Kovalainen, Vettel and Glock. |
| 14:08:29
| Now Hamilton is fastest from Rosberg as the times start to pick up. |
| 14:09:20
| Just Raikkonen and Massa yet to run. |
| 14:10:12
| Kovalainen improves and is now second behind McLaren team-mate Hamilton. |
| 14:10:59
| We do not know if Massa is in the rebuilt Ferrari, the built up spare Ferrari or not running this afternoon. |
| 14:11:32
| Hamilton runs too deep into Club and has to take to the grass. |
| 14:12:55
| Raikkonen gets a little out of shape through Stowe but is able to continue. |
| 14:13:21
| Hamilton joins Kovalainen in the pit. Rosberg remains third and is on track. |
| 14:13:45
| Now Rosberg moves second and splits the McLaren duo. |
| 14:14:21
| This is Rosberg's second stint of the session and he's now on the softer tyre. |
| 14:14:56
| Raikkonen remains down the order at the moment and is probably on a well used set of tyres. |
| 14:15:38
| Fisichella moves fourth fastest in the Force India. |
| 14:16:02
| Some varying programmes at the moment. |
| 14:16:34
| Barrichell is now third fastest on the soft tyre. |
| 14:17:02
| Alonso runs wide through Copse. |
| 14:17:20
| Alonso is also on the soft tyre at the moment. |
| 14:17:39
| He has moved sixth fastest in the Renault. |
| 14:18:30
| Heidfeld vaults fifth fastest fromthe bottom of the timesheets. |
| 14:22:05
| Rosberg continues to push hard on the soft tyre. A long second stint from the Williams driver. |
| 14:22:48
| Timo Glock has brought out the yellow flags. |
| 14:23:32
| Glock has pulled to a halt exiting Club with a mechanical problem. He was 12th fastest overall. |
| 14:24:33
| Coulthard moves fifth fastest. Did he slow under the yellows? |
| 14:25:18
| Webber vaults fastest. The yellow flags must have gone by now. Webber remains on the harder tyre. |
| 14:25:49
| All change again as Vettel moves fastest on the soft tyre ahead of Webber and Hamilton. |
| 14:27:20
| Vettel may be fastest, but he is still three-tenths down on his P7 from this morning. |
| 14:27:41
| Hamilton and Kovalainen are back out for McLaren. |
| 14:28:47
| Kovalainen sets the fastest lap of the session. Both he and Hamilton are trying the soft tyre. |
| 14:30:13
| Piquet is on the soft tyre but not making gains as remains 16th. |
| 14:33:25
| Raikkonen remains 12th at the moment and no sign of Massa who we presume has no car to run. |
| 14:33:53
| Raikkonen moves eighth on that last lap. |
| 14:34:29
| Button vaults sixth fastest in the second Honda. |
| 14:35:31
| There is lost of work going on in the Massa pit. Clearly they hope to get some laps in what is either the spare car or the re-built car. |
| 14:36:14
| Rosberg moves third fastest as he has now moved back to the harder tyre. |
| 14:37:36
| Kubica is down in 17th at the moment and is clearly not pushing for an ultimate lap time. |
| 14:38:55
| The lap times remain nearly a second slower than this morning. |
| 14:40:13
| Kubica locks up and runs wide into Luffield 1. |
| 14:41:19
| Felipe Massa is now on track in the Ferrari. It is probably an installation lap. |
| 14:42:40
| Massa did pit at the end of his first lap. |
| 14:44:31
| This is tyre evaluation time this afternoon. Heidfeld is now trying the soft tyre. |
| 14:46:35
| Button and Barrichello on quicker laps as the latter moves fourth fastest. |
| 14:47:01
| Button now takes over P4 from his Honda team-mate. |
| 14:48:59
| Nakajima is now trying the soft tyre at Williams and looking to improve on 18th. |
| 14:49:29
| He does improve and is now fifth fastest. |
| 14:50:20
| Rosberg also on the move in the second FW30 as he is now second behind Kovalainen. |
| 14:51:54
| Kubica moves seventh fastest and is now the leading BMW Sauber driver. |
| 14:52:12
| Massa's first lap of the session moves him 11th. |
| 14:53:14
| Kovalainen improves his own best time and dips into the the sub-80-second range. |
| 14:54:11
| Massa takes too much kerbing exiting Abbey and gets sideways |
| 14:57:50
| Trulli remains slowest at the moment in the sole surviving Toyota. The Italian is on track looking to make progress. |
| 14:59:40
| Trulli is on the soft tyre but not making much on an impression at the moment. |
| 15:01:11
| The yellow flags are out for Trulli who has gone off. |
| 15:02:09
| Trulli is out of the car but plenty of rear end damage as he's off at the same place as Massa this morning in an almost identical accident. |
| 15:02:42
| So not a good day for Toyota with both cars out with 30 minutes remaining. |
| 15:03:15
| The TF108 is removed and the session will resume. |
| 15:05:55
| It seems a rear wing failure for Trulli. |
| 15:08:13
| Webber has vaulted third fastest on the softer tyre. |
| 15:09:10
| Nakajima has gone off exiting Farm. He lost the back end and spun into the right hand side wall just before the Bridge. |
| 15:09:41
| Some damage to the Williams but he has made it back to the pits. |
| 15:09:59
| Some debris on track at the scene. |
| 15:11:09
| Webber aborted his lap and pitted. |
| 15:12:55
| Massa runs wide and continues. He seems to have understeer in the Ferrari. |
| 15:13:36
| Still a gain for the Brazilian as he moves sixth fastest. |
| 15:14:45
| Massa does have an understeer issue as he is having to get out of the throttle mid-turn. |
| 15:15:31
| Kubica, Button and Coulthard on track. Most are in the pits at the moment. |
| 15:16:17
| Massa's morning time of 1:15.575s remains unbeaten so far in this session. |
| 15:17:21
| Kovalainen is back out in his McLaren and currently has an eight-tenths advantage. |
| 15:19:09
| Kovalainen is back out on the harder tyre. Piquet is on the soft at the moment in the Renault but remains down in 17th. |
| 15:21:07
| A small gain for Raikkonen who moves up one position to 11th. |
| 15:22:02
| Eight minutes remain and the curcuit is now busy with some trying hot laps in the final minutes. |
| 15:22:42
| Webber moves second fastest, half a second behind Kovalainen. |
| 15:23:43
| Webber is currently on the softer tyre and chasing a Toro Rosso on the circuit. |
| 15:24:08
| Most now out for a final stint of the day. |
| 15:24:27
| Hamilton moves third fastest. |
| 15:25:11
| Soft tyre time it seems as Hamilton set that lap on the option tyre as well.. Glock is back out after his earlier problems. |
| 15:26:06
| Hamilton ragged through the complex and pits. |
| 15:27:05
| Massa understeers off again and is able to continue. |
| 15:27:38
| Hamilton is out of the car and that is the end of his session. |
| 15:28:01
| He didn't look too happy to be honest. |
| 15:28:32
| Coulthard is on a fast lap looking to move up from 12th in the Red Bull. |
| 15:29:13
| A good lap from Coulthard moves him fourth, just a fraction slower than Hamilton. |
| 15:29:44
| Webber is out of his RB4. His session is complete. |
| 15:30:03
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 15:30:23
| The flag is out and now we have a yellow... |
| 15:31:17
| The yellow is probably for the scheduled safety car test. |
| 15:31:55
| So Kovalainen remains fastest this afternoon, but unable to beat Massa's morning time. |
| 15:32:48
| Webber is second fastest in the second session ahead of Hamilton, Coulthard, Rosberg, Vettel, Button, Massa, Nakajima and Barrichello. |
