The 2009 Turkish Grand Prix would get off to a positive start for the AT&T Williams team with Nico Rosberg finishing fastest in the opening Friday practice session. Nico would set his time in the closing moments of the session. He was backed up a team-mate Kazuki Nakajima who would finish sixth. Bridgestone would bring their hardest tyre selection for this race on a circuit that places
demands on the tyres. It was a difficult session with the track conditions making the going very difficult.

For most of the session it was Hamilton who was fastest for much of the session. The session would get off to a slow start with the track conditions such that it would be over thirty minutes before anyone would come out to set a time. Hamilton would set the early benchmark time with a 1m33.992. He would improve with a 1m32.205.

Several drivers including Kazuki would take to the track setting a time of 1m:34.490 to move into second. Kazuki would drop outside the top three but would move ahead of Trulli to take this spot back. Hamilton would improve again with a 1m:30.247 as he continued to use the harder tyre. Kazuki was able to move up to second with a 1m:30.788. Nico would move ahead of his team-mate with a 1m:30.719. Nico would join several other drivers leaving the track when he would run wide at Turn one but was able to continue.

Kazuki would move up to second with a time of 1m:30.313 as the session approached the halfway mark. Trulli was able to post a quick time going fastest with a 1m:29.983. But Kazuki was able to again improve his time lowering it with a 1m:29.908. Second was now Trulli followed by Nico, Hamilton, and Raikkonen.

With thirty minutes of the session remaining it would be Massa who was fastest with a 1m:29.812, ahead of Kazuki and Glock. Trulli was now fourth followed by Button, Raikkonen, and Alonso in seventh. Barrichello was able to set a new fastest time with a 1m:29.678 but Hamilton was able to move past him with a 1m:29.597. He would improve on that with a 1m:29.319. Nico would come back on to the circuit and was able to move from the middle of the pack to fourth with 1m:29.724, running on the harder tyres. He was able to move from fourth to third on the following lap, posting a time of 1m:29.698.

The session would be stopped as a result of some matting being lifted at Turn one. It would resume with fifteen minutes remaining. Kovalainen would improve to ninth while Kazuki was able to move up from eighth place to third with 1m:29.448. As the session came to an end Vettel would move up to second behind Hamilton with 1m:29.337, but was beaten by Jarno Trulli with a 1m:29.271. But it would be Nico who would put in a 1m:28.952 to move ahead of Hamilton on his final timed lap of the morning. Another encouraging start for the Williams team as they prepare for the weekend. But there is always the question as to what fuel Nico was running with when he set his time.

Pos  Driver       Team			    Time      Laps
 1.  Rosberg      AT&T Williams-Toyota  (B)  1:28.952 24
 2.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:29.263 23
 3.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:29.271 26
 4.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:29.337 17
 5.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:29.342 22
 6.  Nakajima     AT&T Williams-Toyota  (B)  1:29.371 21
 7.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:29.398 24
 8.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:29.422 24
 9.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:29.525 24
10.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:29.590 19
11.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:29.747 20
12.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:29.864 21
13.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:29.934 25
14.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:30.132 18
15.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:30.176 21
16.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:30.645 22
17.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:30.689 19
18.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:30.729 22
19.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:30.838 24
20.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:30.944 25