The opening ninety minute practice session for the 2008 European Grand Prix
would see the AT&T Williams drivers finishing in eighth and tenth. Kazuki Nakajima would finish ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg. Practice would take place on the new Valencia street circuit which runs around the harbour area. The drivers would have the soft and super soft tyres at their disposal.

Nico and Kazuki would complete their installation lap early in a session that
would see the team and drivers try to come to grips with the new circuit. The circuit was dusty in the early stages of the session seeing some drivers sliding and in some cases spinning as they coped with the circuit.

Most of the drivers would use the harder tyre. With over and hour of the session run Kazuki would move up to be in eleventh but Nico was down in seventeenth. It would not be until late in the session that Nico was able to improve to move up to tenth. Kazuki would also improve to finish eighth.

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time     Laps
 1.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:40.496 29
 2.  Massa         Ferrari              (B)  1:40.654 27
 3.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:40.822 14
 4.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:41.099 31
 5.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:41.163 23
 6.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           (B)  1:41.281 24
 7.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              (B)  1:41.317 27
 8.  Nakajima      AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:41.329 26
 9.  Alonso        Renault              (B)  1:41.385 31
10.  Rosberg       AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:41.706 22
11.  Barrichello   Honda                (B)  1:41.830 27
12.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:41.930 27
13.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari  (B)  1:41.951 23
14.  Glock         Toyota               (B)  1:42.036 27
15.  Piquet        Renault              (B)  1:42.107 32
16.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           (B)  1:42.453 23
17.  Button        Honda                (B)  1:42.460 29
19.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:43.075 25
19.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:43.312 23
20.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari  (B)  1:43.524 24