It was wet in Germany today (Friday), so testing was not going well for the tyres. If it rains tomorrow as well, but doesn't on Sunday, we could see an interesting race. It also meant a lot of drivers were spinning out.
Chandhok was not racing for Hispania this weekend, instead being replaced by Sakon Yamamoto. The team will be switching their drivers around for the rest of the season to give them all a chance to race (source: BBC Commentary). Instead of racing, Karun Chandhok was up in the commentary box with the BBC boys for practice 1 and 2, showing off his knowledge of F1 past and present.
In the soaking wet practice 1, extreme wet tyres were tested, but the teams had to be careful – there's only three sets available for the weekend, and four sets of intermediates. The extreme wets degrade very quickly compared to other tyres as well.
It was dryer in practice 2, but after a crash in practice 1, Hamilton only had about ten minutes on the track to start testing his 'prime' (or harder) tyres. He still got in some reasonable times, however. Tomorrow he'll have to test the 'option' (softer) tyres, but weather-permitting he'll get that done and not have too many race troubles.
Alonso was just fastest in practice 2, ahead of Vettel, Massa and Webber. If Mercedes can pull it together, qualifying should be interesting tomorrow. I'm hoping to see Ferrari do well. It's at 1pm BST (8am EST if any F1-loving Americans are reading).
Also of note: Glock in his Virgin Racing car was very close to Alguersuari's time. I'm getting a lot better at spelling Alguersuari without checking too!
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