They always go full tank on fridays

True, however Hamilton always looks like he is about to go off

Hamilton fastest on straight by quite a margin... might explain the twitchiness

Ha that's a good one

I have been watch there car and the drivers are swatting fly's to keep that thing on the track

Ment this for the bmw

Just heard Kubicas radio ..He's really miserable and said the car is not working at all and is sliding everywhere! Not sandbagging then

is anybody else watching on BBC live through the web site? The Australian commentators hopeless

Where are we, the cars are nowhere to be found
We are 13 & 14

Kovi is on softs longish run, Hami can't tell but he is on a long run

Correction Hami in pits

I see I guess these dumb camera men on speed haven't shown the car in 30 minutes

The car is not Handling well. Kubica was on the radio to the pits get very annoyed about it. He said he couldn't drive the car.
No sand bagging there.

It's an FOM feed for practice.
It's really frustrating that they are showing the WDC winners cars.

Still no word on the diffusers.

Kimi is off in his own world again, 20

He must be doing long stints for tyre degredation and such other stuff

Try http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/default.stm

Hamilton out on softs

On the softs but he is very far off the pace he must have a full tank of fuel, at least I hope so

Me too

Sutil is on the softs too and he just reported the car is undriveable with the track temp/ tyre combinations

I heard that and the other guy on the radio said sorry mate that's just the tyre

Seems they are experiencing colder temps than expected and the softs just aren't getting up to temp.

Hamilton just reported the car is bottoming out underbraking... running too low?

Massa on softs had a big moment. looks like they are driving in rain!

Good God, were dead last.

Are mclaren going to throw in a few hot laps at the end of the session?

I expected them to be more competitive, at least here on this unique track, but it seems that McLaren told the truth...

All über diffuser teams are killing the competition

I dont think we are getting a clear picture at the moment... Track is v cold and everyones slow

We really are 1~2 seconds off pace and probably won't get out of Q3. We're completely toast.

The car is bottoming out because they're setting the ride height (too) low to overcome the rear downforce shortcomings.

Hammy is giving it his all sparks are flying everywhere

At least we are not last!

That was a great save by lewis there at the end of the session

And so begins DIFFUSERGATE

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I don't think we're 1.7 seconds off the pace

Though the bet b/w me and paranoik0... it's gonna be close haha

All right for me it time to go sleep

Hopefully tommarow we will pull a uber diffusor out of our asses, if not we are looking at a very though race & year

Go mclaren anyways we will rebound, at least it is the best looking car on the grid

Didn't see FP1, but FP2 looked woeful. At least I'm now mentally prepared for seeing a Mclaren being lapped on Sunday Morning and have plenty of time to buy in Bourbon and nail some pillows to the wall in advance.

Still, there used to be a saying in Lloyds of London about shipping losses, which went "You draw a line above the Titanic and work your way upwards" which is how I'm going to have to view this year, as hopefully this is the nadir already.

Norbert says the 8 tenth between Ferrari and McLaren now might be the real gap between those two teams.

And even Ferrari don't seem to be anywhere near the front. A podium has never been further away.

Ok, wake me up when the 2010 season starts. I'll skip this one.

Well, tomorrow we`ll see how big the gap really is.

Only a fan when you are winning?

How sad.

I paid carefull attention to the long runs in FP2 and the Macs didn't look too far away.
What Mclaren didn't do was put in bangers earlier on in that practice. We should not forget KOVA's pace in FP1

We will see tomorrow.

Where did he say that?
I seriously think that strategy will play a huge role in Sunday's race.

Premiere TV
I also think it will, as McLaren will be allowed to choose their strategy after they failed to get in Q3...

"We're in very good shape" ?

I know, that`s why I think that FP today was just an extension of winter testing.

Come on there is no way they make Q3 - well not Lewis - he cant even see the breaking points as the car is too low. This means he cant attack the way he does - he'd lose time s1 and S3

That was the info I received and I honestly don't accept that we are as bad as the team were making out.
Has anyone noticed that the team have began to back away from saying that things are really bad save LH who was unable to match KOVA's pace today.

I agree with Peroa, FP2 looked more like an extension of winter testing especially in the KOVA's case.
LH seems to be having setup issues. Lets see what the team will come up with tomorrow.

We were actually faster than the Toyotas on long runs in FP2. The only team that appeared better than us was Ferrari but not by much even though they ran shorter stints and used the softer option a lot more than we did.

We lost most time in sector 1 and 3 but quite competitive in sector 2.

The times may not look too good in FP2 but the reality is we were better than those times indicate.

McLaren time in FP2 are 0,4 slower than FP1. Maybe we can expect 0,2-0,3 sec more, even with that there is no chance.

Kova's time from FP1 would put him on 16th place in FP2 instead of 17th. So far I'm sure that on Sunday I will drink a little bit more then I usually do in order to wash away the bitterness... :\

Hopefully I'm wrong...