The 2009 German Grand Prix Thread

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Trulli moves into second with a 1:32.858. He is on the super soft compound

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Not much change in the order at this stage. Webber still fastest from Trulli by 0.274. Nakajima in third

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Button goes fastest with a 1:32.369. He set the fastest 3rd sector time so far

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30 minutes remain and the top 8 are: Button, Webber, Sutil, Barrichello, Trulli, Nakajima, Heidfeld and Vettel

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Hamilton jumps into second with a 1:32.413. Vettel on a flyer

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Vettel goes fastest with a 1:32.342

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With 15 minutes remaining in the session, Vettel remains fastest ahead of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton. The gap between the 3 is just 0.071 seconds!

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Hamilton spins but recovers.

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Hamilton fastest with a 1:32.149

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Vettel trying to better Hamilton's time but without success

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Session over.

Hamilton tops the timesheets with a 1:32.149 from ahead of Vettel and Button. Webber, Trulli, Sutil, Barrichello and Alonso make the top 8

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Nakajima, Piquet, Heidfeld, Massa, Rosberg, Kubica, Glock, Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Buemi, Bourdais and Fisichella make the rest of the field

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The times are much closer this session with the top 16 separated by 1.033 seconds

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Heidfeld covered the most number of laps with 36. Hamilton did the least with 23 (Fisichella only managed 3 due to crashing out early)

[Julian Mayo]

So we have a Mercedes powered car fastest in Germany, a german driver in second, and a Cologne built car way up there. (Pity Fisi stuck it in the bushes again)
Was this practice or a publicity stunt?????