For Saturday practice AT&T Williams driver Nico Hulkenberg would be back behind the wheel of his repaired FW32 after his crash into the barrier exiting Campsa in the second Friday practice session. Nico explained "I ran wide in the corner and made too much contact with the kerb causing the car to bottom out." Both drivers would start the session with new floor while Rubens would have a revised front wing.

It would take about fifteen minutes before Nico would start his first timed lap. Nico was playing catch-up following his crash at Campsa. Nico's first timed lap would be a 1m:24.378. Nico would improve with a 1m:23.492 on his second timed lap. The session would be stopped when Petrov was to have a big crash with twenty minutes of the session complete. Petrov had lost control of his car at Turn four and hit the barrier with both ends of his Renault. He had run over some wet kerbing which contributed to his spin. The kerb was wet from overnight rain. Stewards had also confirmed that Virgin would face a five-place grid penalty for both cars after it failed to declare the gear ratios to be used for the weekend before the deadline after practice yesterday.

It would take right up until the end of the session before Rubens would set his quickest lap but it would only see him sixteenth with 1m:22.953. This was three-tenths of a second behind team-mate Nico. Nico's best lap time was a 1m:22.634 to finish the session in fourteenth. Looking at this result it would seem to be a very big ask for either driver to make it into the final period of qualifying.

Pos  Driver         Team		   Time      Laps
 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:20.528  15
 2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:21.232  11
 3.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:21.348  14
 4.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:21.376  16
 5.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:21.583  14
 6.  Massa          Ferrari                1:21.749  16
 7.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:22.013  14
 8.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:22.091  15
 9.  Kubica         Renault                1:22.242  20
10.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:22.377  12
11.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:22.400  18
12.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:22.412  11
13.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:22.527  20
14.  Hulkenberg     AT&T Williams-Cosworth 1:22.634  16
15.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:22.926  20
16.  Barrichello    AT&T Williams-Cosworth 1:22.953  16
17.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:23.597  12
18.  Petrov         Renault                1:23.896  5
19.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:24.610  14
20.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:24.745  11
21.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:25.722  15
22.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:25.855  14
23.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth           1:26.611  18
24.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:30.246  6