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By Caroline Cheese
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0948: Can Force India finally get off the mark in F1? Yes, is the verdict from the 5 Live Sports Extra team. If Adrian Sutil hadn't had his crash during Silverstone qualifying, they might have done already. The mighty Sutil is third quickest at the Nurburgring at the moment, behind Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg.
0942: It's a one-lap specialist one-two at the top with Jarno Trulli leading from Nico Rosberg. Brawn and Red Bull yet to show.
BBC Sport's Sarah Holt at the Nurburgring: "Keep your eye on Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel during first practice because this is the first time he has driven round the Nurburgring in an F1 car. It seems like he's been around for ages but the 22-year-old is only in his second season and last year's German GP was held at Hockenheim. Like most F1 fanatics, the teenage Vettel has had a spin around the Nurburgring's fearsome Nordschleife. The northern loop of the circuit was home to the German GP until Niki Lauda's horrific, fiery crash in 1976 saw it dropped from the F1 calendar. Vettel says: "As soon as I got my licence I did a lap of the Nordschleife in a road car but I was completely lost and around half a lap I completely lost the brakes and I was lucky not to go off." Thankfully he is expecting things to go much more smoothly this weekend: "The new Nürburgring is one of the better modern tracks - and even the schnitzel in the local pubs is legendary.""
0936: Good news, the weather has perked up a bit and I spy cars on the track. Quick laps are being posted. Hurrah!
BBC pit-lane reporter Holly Samos: "Getting the tyres to work for Button and Barrichello is crucial for Brawn. Rubens was saying that at Silverstone, the tyres were 80C under the blankets, and after one lap they went down to 55C. That is very unusual."
0930: One hour of this session remaining... and nothing is happening on the track. Nothing at all.
BBC Sport's Andrew Benson at the Nurburgring: "Red Bull's car might be the class of the field, but there have been ructions behind the scenes at the team. Technical director Geoff Willis, who was brought in a couple of years ago to work with design chief/resident genius Adrian Newey, has parted company with the team. Simplistically, Willis's role was a management one while Newey got on with the creative side of things, and he was seen as the man whose job it was to keep Newey's feet on the ground, but the team have decided that his position had become redundant."
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner: "Hopefully we can give Brawn a good run for their money this weekend. The problem at the moment is the circuit is greasy and you're not going to learn anything."
0923: Whitmarsh is also asked if he is tempted to "do a Honda" and focus energies on next year's car. "Yes," is his answer, but he says they are trying to find a balance. "We're a race team and it hurts not being at the front."
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh: "For us there's a little bit of excitement, We're brought parts here which were due for Hungary to try to lift the performance of the car. We have a radically different front wing on Heikki's car. On Lewis's car, we have a completely different floor."
0917: Giancarlo Fisichella starting to slide around a bit in his Force India and the slick tyres are no longer cutting the mustard out there.
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0911: It's only 11C at the Nurburgring, 15C on track. BBC pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz reckons Felipe Massa has a new nose cone and chassis on his Ferrari, which are basically copied from Red Bull. The days of everyone cribbing from Brawn apparently long gone.
BBC Sport's Sarah Holt at the Nurburgring: "It is 21 days since my last Grand Prix but a 4am alarm call on Thursday morning and we are back on the road again. A flight to Dusseldorf and then a two-hour drive to find the Nurburgring nestled in the Eifel Mountains. Up and up, the road snaked above green fields and squares of thick conifers with sunshine and swatches of clouds overhead. After negotiating heavy traffic and a German version of "We Will Rock You" blaring from the radio, we made it to the track by lunchtime. BBC HQ is providing a welcome temporary reprieve from the "four-seasons-in-one-day" climes of The Ring. Right now, grey rain clouds are skittering across the circuit to my right with brighter skies to the left. It is also very chilly - about 15C - with what Andrew Benson has efficiently described as a "brisk breeze". Brrr. There is, however, one good thing to be said about the weather; changeable conditions = unpredictable racing."
BBC Sport's Andrew Benson at the Nurburgring: "Gone are the days when teams made a couple of updates to their cars a year - these days most teams have something new at nearly every race. This weekend, the major changes have been made by the 'big' teams, who are struggling this year. So, BMW Sauber have a new double diffuser, rear suspension and front wing. McLaren have a new front wing, diffuser and top bodywork. Renault have a revised front wing and Ferrari have a few small aerodynamic tweaks around the car. Of the title contenders, Red Bull, who took a fundamentally revised car to Silverstone, appear to have a few small bits and pieces, and Brawn have revised front wing endplates."
0900: The clock is ticking... and a treat for the home fans as Sebastian Vettel, Germany's best hope for a home winner, emerges early from the Red Bull garage and pootles around the track.
0858: On to matters on the track… and the news is it's ruddy cold in Germany. That may be bad news for Brawn, who struggled at Silverstone in the chilly conditions, and good news for Red Bull, who didn't.
0853: If you want the proper inside track on all this, may I recommend
Andrew Benson's blog?
It's basically what I said, but with posher words. Ha, only joking Andrew.
0849: So the last time we met, F1 was on the verge of disintegration because of a row between eight teams and Max Mosley, boss of the sport's governing body the FIA. But, praise be, a few days after the British Grand Prix, they
sorted it all out
and everyone was friends again… for precisely two whole days until Max got upset about some things in the media and threatened to take back his promise to step down as FIA boss. Then
the eight teams were told at a meeting
they couldn't have any input on rules etc because they haven't actually officially entered the 2010 championship, even though an FIA statement a couple of weeks back said they had. So in summary: THEY'RE STILL GOING ON ABOUT IT.
0839: Eight races down, nine to go, which I reckon makes the upcoming race at the Nurburgring the halfway point. First practice gets under way at 0900 BST, with the second session kicking off at 1300 BST. Give me a shout on 81111 or on
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0835: Ah, hello to you. Hope you're feeling fully rested and refreshed after that mid-season break. Ready for another round of the FIA/Fota row?
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