On a sunny day the Williams Martini team would prepare Suzie Wolff who was replacing Valtteri Bottas for the first of the Friday practice sessions for the 2014 German Grand Prix. Joining her would be Felipe Massa while at Sauber Van der Gar was taking over from Gutierrez. On the technical front the big unknown was the fact that the teams had been forced to remove the FRIC suspensions systems as the FIA had viewed that they could be illegal. This system was designed to link the front and rear suspensions to make the car more stable. The ninety minute session would commence with Suzie first out shortly after followed by Felipe for their installation laps. Suzie would report to the team that she had a problem with the up shifts. She was told to stay in the gear she had selected and was now crawling back to the pits.

Felipe would complete his lap and would pit as more drivers came out. Suzie would report that there was an error light on her dash. The last driver to come out would be Vettel as Suzie continued her slow trip back to the pits. On the tyre front Pirelli had brought their soft and super soft tyres for the weekend. Suzie would get back to her garage where the team would start to try and determine the nature of the problem. She would stay in her car as the mechanics worked. The Williams team would report that they thought they had identified the problem. Ericsson would be the first to return to the track joined by Kobayashi. Ericsson would set a 1m:28.480 as Magnussen also came out. Both Marussia cars were also out on the track as Suzie left her garage having had her issue sorted out. A 1m:25.401 from Ericsson but Kobayashi would go faster with a 1m:24.466.

Both McLaren's were now out on the track while the second Williams would come out. We also had both Torro Rosso's out on the track as Magnussen set a 1m:22.888 to be quickest. We now had both Mercedes cars out on the track as Van der Gar set a 1m:22.679 to move ahead of Magnussen. Suzie would go ahead of the Sauber to be quickest with a 1m:22.471. Both Red Bull cars were out for their first runs as Magnussen set a 1m:20.471 to be quickest with Felipe now second with a time of 1m:21.031. Button was third followed by Suzie, Perez, and Van der Gar in sixth. Suzie would improve with a 1m:21.378 as Hamilton moved up to be seventh, 1m:22.688. Both Ferrari's were out also Kvyat would move up to be fifth, 1m:21.619, as Button went second as Ricciardo fifth. Felipe would pit after his first run with Perez now fourth. Raikkonen was told to pit as there was a problem with his water pump. Felipe was now third and Suzie sixth. Alonso had yet to set a time but his first lap would see a 1m:20.653 to be third.

Suzie had dropped to be ninth and Felipe fifth. Rosberg would go quickest with a 1m:20.337 with Vettel now fourth, 1m:20.650. Vettel would improve with a 1m:20.295 to be quickest followed by Rosberg and Magnussen. Alonso was now fourth with Sutil seventh and Vergne eighth. Perez and Hulkenberg were tenth and eleventh with Suzie back in her pit with just over an hour remaining. Rosberg was on a quicker lap with Ricciardo now fourth. Rosberg would pit with the track now empty. The drivers had all pitted to return their extra set of soft tyres after the first half hour. Chilton would come out and set a 1m:23.652 to be twentieth. Kobayashi would be next out while for Williams Felipe and Suzie were ninth and twelfth. Raikkonen had yet to set a time as the team tried to fix his pump issue. Ericsson and Kvyat would come back out followed by Vergne and Vettel. Kvyat would improve to be third with a 1m:20.425. Grosjean was also back out with just over forty minutes remaining. Bianchi and Raikkonen were also back out joined by Button and Hulkenberg.

Ricciardo was next out as Vergne moved up to be eighth, 1m:20.622. Rosberg and Magnussen had also returned to the track as Raikkonen moved up to be fourth with a 1m:20.454. Button would go fastest with a 1m:20.087 followed by Vettel and Rosberg. But Ricciardo would also improve to be quickest with a 1m:19.697 Hamilton was down in nineteenth as Kvyat pitted. Neither of the Williams cars had come back out Felipe and Suzie were fourteenth and fifteenth. Rosberg would go quicker with a 1m:19.276 with Hamilton now second with a 1m:19.615. Grosjean would have to pit with an issue with his DRS that would see the team have to change his rear wing. A 1m:19.545 from Hamilton to remain second as Rosberg went fastest in sector one. He would finish his lap with a 1m:19.131 to be quickest by four tenths. Alonso was now fourth with a 1m:19.831. With an hour completed the order was Rosberg from Hamilton, Ricciardo, Alonso, Button, Vettel, Magnussen, Raikkonen, Kvyat and Vergne tenth.

Both Williams cars were now back out for their second runs with Hamilton setting a 1m:19.196 still in second with Alonso now third, 1m:19.423. Felipe was Suzie had set a 1m:20.849 and a 1m:20.983 but Suzie would improve slightly with a 1m:20.769 to be fourteenth. Felipe was now sixteenth but on his next lap he would set a 1m:20.542 to be tenth. Suzie was now fifteenth while Sutil went tenth with a 1m:20.505. Felipe would run wide at Turn one but would continue. He was not the only driver to run wide with Rosberg having gone off the track at various corners. There were only four cars on the track but this would become two as both Williams cars pitted. Felipe had reported understeer with his car that saw him pit for changes to be made with twenty minutes remaining. With fifteen minutes remaining cars would start to come back out for their final runs with nine of the top ten back out on the track. It was expected that both Williams cars would also come back out as Hamilton pitted. Felipe was back out for his last run with little to be expected in terms of times given that he was on used soft tyres.

Suzie was also out for her final run currently just 0.227 behind Felipe. Alonso would also pit briefly with Button also coming in. Button would become the only driver in the pits as the final five minutes commenced. The final minutes would count down as Felipe improved his first sector time but would remain eleventh. Drivers would start to return to their pits as the session drew to a close. With the end of the session the Williams pair of Felipe Massa and Suzie Wolff would finish in eleventh and fifteenth. For Suzie it was later revealed that here earlier problem had been a sensor issue. Apart from this it was an uneventful session for the Williams team as they worked through their schedule.

Pos Driver           	  Team		        Time     Laps
 1. Nico Rosberg          Mercedes               1m19.131s 29
 2. Lewis Hamilton        Mercedes               1m19.196s 25
 3. Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                1m19.423s 21
 4. Daniel Ricciardo      Red Bull-Renault       1m19.697s 27
 5. Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1m19.833s 24
 6. Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault       1m20.097s 28
 7. Kevin Magnussen       McLaren-Mercedes       1m20.105s 32
 8. Kimi Raikkonen        Ferrari                1m20.210s 21
 9. Daniil Kvyat          Toro Rosso-Renault     1m20.337s 28
10. Adrian Sutil          Sauber-Ferrari         1m20.505s 18
11. Felipe Massa          Williams-Mercedes      1m20.542s 19
12. Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Renault     1m20.586s 23
13. Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes   1m20.592s 22
14. Sergio Perez          Force India-Mercedes   1m20.598s 24
15. Susie Wolff           Williams-Mercedes      1m20.769s 22
16. Giedo van der Garde   Sauber-Ferrari         1m20.782s 23
17. Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault          1m21.603s 20
18. Pastor Maldonado      Lotus-Renault          1m21.854s 30
19. Kamui Kobayashi       Caterham-Renault       1m22.572s 31
20. Jules Bianchi         Marussia-Ferrari       1m22.982s 24
21. Marcus Ericsson       Caterham-Renault       1m23.256s 35
22. Max Chilton           Marussia-Ferrari       1m23.299s 22