By Emma Aitken
August 1 2008

Ferrari came to Hungary knowing that they are playing catch up and will need to put in a good performance this weekend. So they got off to a great start this morning by taking 1-2 on the time sheets. Kovalainen followed them in his McLaren with his team mate Hamilton right behind him.

Ferrari come to Hungary this weekend with a lot to prove and made a good start with that by completing this morning’s free practise session with a 1-2. Massa topped the table with his team mate Raikkonen just behind him. The McLarens’ of Kovalainen and Hamilton took third and fourth respectively.

 The session got off to a slow start with no one putting in more than an installation lap in the first 30 minutes. Raikkonen put in the first competitive lap 45 minutes in to the session with a time of 1m.22.032s.

 It was the last 20 minutes that saw the action really hot up though, when Massa came out and took a time under the 1m.22s mark. Timo Glock came out to top that but not for long once Hamilton put his lap in.

 Massa came back at them with two fast laps, the second of which remained unbeaten. Although Raikkonen and Kovalainen improved their times within the last ten minutes, neither of them could improve on Massa’s time.

 Alonso did a job good in his Renault to claim fifth and Timo Glock, back after his nasty accident in Germany took his Toyota to sixth. 

The BMW’s of Kubica and Heidfeld followed on from there with Piquet in his Renault splitting the pair in eighth. Trulli’s Toyota completed the top ten.

	Driver	Team	Time
1	Massa	Ferrari	1m21.981s
2	Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m21.345s
3	Kovalainen	McLaren	1m21.410s
4	Hamilton	McLaren	1m21.535s
5	Alonso	Renault	1m21.802s
6	Glock	Toyota	1m21.931s
7	Kubica	BMW	1m22.267s
8	Piquet	Renault	1m22.326s
9	Heidfeld	BMW	1m22.370s
10	Trulli	Toyota	1m22.457s
11	Webber	Red Bull Racing	1m22.654s
12	Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	1m22.700s
13	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1m22.900s
14	Button	Honda	1m22.917s
15	Barrichello	Honda	1m23.093s
16	Rosberg	Williams	1m23.147s
17	Nakajima	Williams	1m23.274s
18	Sutil	Force India	1m23.353s
19	Fisichella	Force India	1m23.459s
20	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1m23.923s