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Even though its' only the first practice session, no one's sandbagging...........top-5 at the moment are separated by 0.196 seconds; they aren't leaving anything to the winds.............

Approaching 35 minutes remaining in session #1

Top-5 still unchanged; Kaz Nakajima has run the most laps so far w/14 total

Could Hamilton be struggling?.............currently he's P16 w/a 1:38.009

While we were away, the Force India of Giancarlo Fisichella shot all the way up to 3rd w/a 1:37.025............

Top-5
Rosberg, Glock, Fisichella, Button, Vettel(separated by 0.187 sec)

From P1-P20 the gap is 1.705 seconds(P1-Rosberg, P20-Heidfeld)

Piquet resets fastest S3 time[39.5]

note...............S refers to sector, as in S1[sector 1], S2[sector 2] & S3[sector 3]; every F1 circuit is divided into three different sectors

Button unseats Rosberg for 1st w/a 1:36.676

Other notables at present............
Hamilton, 8th
Alonso, 13th
Raikkonen, 14th

Massa moves into P2 w/a 1:36.678, just 2/1,000ths' back of Button

Hamilton moves into 3rd, 1:36.699

The times are starting to fall................TIMBER!!!!

Button resets fastest time in the session[1:36.430]
Massa remains in 2nd[1:36.561]

26 minutes remaining
Top-5 in the session.............Button, Massa, Hamilton, Rosberg, Vettel

Rosberg resets fastest S2 time[31.9]
Barrichello moves into 5th[1:36.813].............only to have Rosberg jump back into 5th in turn.............

Massa's on the gas..........fastest S1 time of the session so far[24.9]...........can he take P1 from Button?........................no; Massa remains in 2nd.........

20 minutes left in the session............
Top-5: Button, Massa, Hamilton, Webber, Vettel

Fastest speeds in each sector so far....................
S1--Fisichella, 290kph
S2--Bourdais, 150kph
S3--Kovalainen, 274kph
Trap--Massa, 298kph