Home boy Hamilton shines in Silverstone


By Sam Cooper
July 8 2007

Championship leader and young British superstar, Lewis Hamilton finished the first practice session for the upcoming British grand prix first, just beating Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen by just over 1 tenth of a second. Felipe Massa finished third, as Fernando Alonso ended the session fourth, the Spaniard did have the speed to trouble the Ferrari’s as a small off track excursion ruined his best lap.

Nico Rosberg bet the two BMW Sauber’s to fifth place, the young German once again proving that Williams does have the pace to challenge the BMW’s. It will still be some time for the English squad to be troubling the big 2.

The two BMW’s of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld finished the session 6th and 7th respectively, following the BMW’s was second Williams driver Alexander Wurz, showing that he has top ten pace.

Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello rounded out the top ten for the first 90 minute practice session, with Jarno Trulli, just missing out on a top ten finish.

Times will be shown below.

Pos.DriverTeamTimeLaps
1L. HamiltonMcLaren1:21.10024
2K. RäikkönenFerrari1:21.21126
3F. MassaFerrari1:21.28526
4F. AlonsoMcLaren1:21.67521
5N. RosbergWilliams1:22.00624
6R. KubicaBMW1:22.10725
7N. HeidfeldBMW1:22.17613
8A. WurzWilliams1:22.21623
9R. SchumacherToyota1:22.87821
10R. BarrichelloHonda1:22.95627
11J. TrulliToyota1:23.03026
12A. DavidsonSuper Aguri1:23.03724
13H. KovalainenRenault1:23.09925
14G. FisichellaRenault1:23.17921
15J. ButtonHonda1:23.51717
16T. SatoSuper Aguri1:23.54818
17M. WebberRed Bull1:23.56421
18D. CoulthardRed Bull1:23.61815
19S. SpeedSTR1:23.85420
20A. SutilSpyker F11:23.95425
21V. LiuzziSTR1:24.15423
22C. AlbersSpyker F11:24.17230
 

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