Schumacher on top in wet first practice

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F1 Grand Prix, GP Belgium, Circuit de Spa-Francorchampsbe

Michael Schumacher will be pleased to top the timesheets in FP1. He went slightly quicker than his teammate and came under no more threat as heavy rain fell on the circuit moments after the Mercedes GP guys set their laptimes.

With other teams still in the boxes, nobody has set a competitive time, and when they finally came out, they were nearly 22 seconds off the Mercedes drivers.

Several drivers experienced hot moments on the wet track, with Senna damaging his rear wing at Liege, and Paul Di Resta going off in the same corner, causing the session to be briefly red-flagged with 20 minutes left on the clock.

In the closing stages, Jenson Button came to within 8 seconds of the Mercedes GP pace as the racing line became dry on the circuit.

Results

Pos.No.DriverTeamTimeGapLaps
17Michael SchumacherMercedes1:54.355-13
28Nico RosbergMercedes1:54.8290.47415
34Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes2:02.7408.3858
41Sebastian VettelRbr-Renault2:03.7529.39710
53Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes2:04.3019.9467
614Adrian SutilForce India-Mercedes2:04.66310.30818
76Felipe MassaFerrari2:04.72810.37310
811Rubens BarrichelloWilliams-Cosworth2:05.39111.03612
919Jaime AlguersuariStr-Ferrari2:06.58312.22816
1016Kamui KobayashiSauber-Ferrari2:06.88612.53115
115Fernando AlonsoFerrari2:07.05512.70012
1217Sergio PerezSauber-Ferrari2:07.48113.12615
1321Jarno TrulliLotus-Renault2:08.23313.87814
1418Sebastien BuemiStr-Ferrari2:08.23913.88414
1512Pastor MaldonadoWilliams-Cosworth2:08.91814.56310
162Mark WebberRbr-Renault2:09.79215.4378
1724Timo GlockVirgin-Cosworth2:12.27817.92313
1823Vitantonio LiuzziHrt-Cosworth2:12.38918.03410
1925Jerome d'AmbrosioVirgin-Cosworth2:12.77218.41713
2015Paul di RestaForce India-Mercedes2:13.05818.7038
2120Karun ChandhokLotus-Renault2:13.09018.73511
2210Vitaly PetrovRenault2:13.60119.24610
239Bruno SennaRenault2:14.34019.9857
2422Daniel RicciardoHrt-Cosworth2:14.93320.57811