Toro Rosso team radiopublished at 13:20 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Max Verstappen: "I've got a headache."
Summary
Vettel fastest in second practice
Hamilton struggling in cool, windy conditions, Button out
Many cars lost control under braking
Get involved & vote: when was F1's best era? #bbcf1
Ferrari boss nearly run over by Massa in FP1
Toro Rosso team radiopublished at 13:20 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Williams drivers on trackpublished at 13:20 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
No panic. Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas are out and straight into the top 10.
As you were.
Image source, Getty Images#bestf1era - the 1950spublished at 13:19 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
As we're asking you to vote for the best F1 era today, we thought we'd jog a few memories with a look at some of the cars that bookended the decades.
We start with the 1950s.
F1's first world champion Giuseppe Farina kicks us off with his 1950 Alfa Romeo, seen here at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone - the very first F1 race.
Image source, Getty ImagesBy the end of the decade the cars were constantly being being refined, note the higher cockpit sides on Tony Brooks's 1959 Ferrari, seen here on the streets of Monaco.
Image source, Getty ImagesTurn one claiming more victimspublished at 13:18 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
We've just seen Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz go straight on at turn one for the second time in just a few minutes.
Romain Grosjean and Nico Rosberg have also had similar moments, in addition to the numerous incidents in FP1.
This track is testing these guys.
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McLaren on Twitter: Those upgrades on @alo_oficial's car include the all-new nose.
Image source, McLarenHamilton quickestpublished at 13:15 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Lewis Hamilton tops the timesheets for the first time today.
He's done a 1:10.137 to eclipse Kimi Raikkonen's erstwhile benchmark by 0.161secs.
Image source, Getty ImagesWhere are the Williams boys?published at 13:11 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Ten minutes gone and we have 18 cars on the board. The Williams cars are the only absentees.
Problems? Or just keeping their powder dry?
Image source, EPATimes tumbling alreadypublished at 13:08 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
It's not taken long to better the times set in opening free practice.
Nico Rosberg set the quickest time with a 1:10.4 this morning.
Less than 10 minutes into FP2 that mark has been eclipsed by the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, who does a 1:10.298.
Rosberg has just improved on his morning time and is in second, 0.070secs behind Raikkonen.
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Sauber F1 Team on Twitter: It's still dry, so we head out with soft tyres on both #C34
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer"According to Jennie Gow on 5 live, Alonso now has the new nose on the car. We'll update you when we know more..."
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Mercedes on Twitter:, external Rain droplets beginning to fall: will there be a mad rush to grab a little dry FP3 running? We're about to find out!
Green lightpublished at 13:00 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Second free practice is under way.
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Red Bull on Twitter:, external Getting that Friday feeling, Red Bull style!
Image source, Red BullMcLaren may not be able to run upgradepublished at 12:55 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer"McLaren have a big update for their car in Austria but it is not yet clear whether they will be able to run it. It has emerged that there has been a complication to do with the crash test, which was passed earlier this week, and McLaren are currently in conversation with governing body the FIA over how to resolve the issue.
"There will be more details later when the situation has been clarified. But it is another blow on a weekend that has already seen Fernando Alonso receive a 20-place grid penalty for using a fifth example of three parts of the engine and may also see Jenson Button hit with a grid penalty, too."
Groundhogs in Canada, Ferrari team bosses in Austriapublished at 12:53 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
The intrepid Canada groundhog was a big talking point after Montreal, but in Austria this morning a rather more sentient being was to be found stumbling into the path of F1 cars.
Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene was the man in question, and you can see and read about it here.
David Prowse is fuming.
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Force India on Twitter:, external The weather has taken a turn for the worse here in Spielberg... are we going to have a wet FP2?
Image source, Force IndiaGet involved - #bestf1erapublished at 12:45 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Mihail Nesterovich: It's got to be mid and late 90s for me - Schumacher vs Newey Cars!
Kevin O'Brien: V10 magic of 96/97 was unbeatable.
Stu Cudmore: 1985-1994 Mansell, Prost, Senna, Piquet / Williams, Lotus, Ferrari, McLaren.
Image source, Getty ImagesSenna era 'worse than now' - Massapublished at 12:43 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer"A high proportion of fans - among them Mark Webber, no less - seem to think there is some kind of major problem with F1 at the moment. But Williams driver Felipe Massa has cautioned against viewing the past with rose-tinted spectacles. The Brazilian said that the 20-year anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death last year prompted him to watch some old races from the legend's era and the result was not pretty.
"'I was watching most of the races he did, it was a lot worse than how it is now,' Massa said. 'The difference in the qualifying was maybe 1.5 seconds to the third place, they (Senna and McLaren team-mate Alain Prost) were lapping the third place every race. So the difference was a lot bigger than it is now. But when you speak to the people everybody says the past is amazing.
"'So go back and watch, and then compare to now. This is something that people need to do, not looking in the past without remembering so well, and just saying the past was amazing. The past looks more interesting also, because the tracks were a lot worse, they were a lot more bumpy, so when you see the cars driving with the bumps it looks more difficult. But now everything is more for our world, everything is more safe, the tracks are different.'"
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Yep, the 1980s could definitely be dodgy on occasion
Get involved - #bestf1erapublished at 12:38 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
We're loving your contributions to today's debate.
It's giving us a great excuse to trawl through the archives, where gems such as Graham Hill's 1969 Gold Leaf Lotus - resplendent with silly wings - do lurk.
Image source, Getty ImagesAlonso's 20-place penalty confirmed; Ricciardo gets 10published at 12:35 British Summer Time 19 June 2015
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer
Image source, Getty Images"We finally have some certainty on some of the penalties some of the drivers are facing this weekend.
"The FIA has put out a statement listing the new engine elements being used, which reveals that Fernando Alonso is using a fifth engine, turbo and MGU-H and Daniel Ricciardo a new engine. As each is a fifth element, that means Alonso gets one 10-place penalty and two five-place penalties (20 places in all) and Ricciardo one 10-place penalty. As Alonso is likely to qualify somewhere between 12th and 16th, that will almost certainly mean he will get a drive-through penalty at the start of the race in addition to dropping to the back of the grid - according to the sliding scale of extra punishments for unserved grid drops.
"Ricciardo's punishment also depends on where he qualifies. If he's in the top 10, it'll be just the grid drop. If he's lower than that it's a five-second penalty if it's up to five unserved grid places or a 10-second penalty if it's between six and 10. There is no news yet on possible penalties for their team-mates, Jenson Button and Daniil Kvyat."