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

  1. Welcome backpublished at 12:31 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Hello. Ready for some more of the F1 cars?

    Me too. Thirty minutes and they will be with us again for FP2.

    We'll bring you all the action and analysis as Nico Rosberg bids to top the timesheets once again.

    All that, plus more gems from the picture vaults as we ponder what was F1's greatest era.

    WilliamsImage source, Getty Images
    Image caption,

    Julie Andrews, earlier today

  2. Bye for nowpublished at 10:46 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Nico RosbergImage source, AP

    Right, we're out of here for an hour or so.

    That was a pretty lively session, with locked brakes aplenty and high-profile failures for both Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel.

    Most crucial of all, Nico Rosberg appeared to have the legs on Lewis Hamilton, who was more than a little curt with his team over the radio at the end of that session.

    Please join us at 12:30 BST for the build up to FP2, which begins a 13:00.

    Andrew Benson's FP1 report is now on the site.

  3. FP1 timespublished at 10:43 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    F1Image source, F1
  4. Postpublished at 10:41 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Williams on Twitter:, external After 26 laps for Bottas he then has a pitstop practice to focus on, as the boys swarm his car...

    williamsImage source, Williams
  5. Lap leaderspublished at 10:41 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz JrImage source, Getty Images

    Max Verstappen put up the most laps in that session, with 38 for Toro Rosso.

    Sergio Perez of Force India completed 37, ahead of Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and the second Force India of Nico Hulkenberg, both with 36.

    At the other end of the scale, Sebastian Vettel managed just four laps in the Ferrari before his gearbox issue struck.

  6. Postpublished at 10:36 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Lotus on Twitter:, external FP1 done for Jolyon Palmer.

    P14 for the Brit, stepping in for Grosjean for the fourth time in FP1 this season.

    palmerImage source, Lotus
  7. FP1 top 10published at 10:34 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    1 Rosberg 1:10.401, 2 Hamilton +0.3s, 3 Raikkonen +0.6s, 4 Bottas +1.1s, 5 Nasr +1.2s, 6 Kvyat +1.2s, 7 Ricciardo +1.3s, 8 Verstappen +1.4s, 9 Massa +1.4, 10 Perez +1.5

  8. Hamilton getting tetchypublished at 10:32 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Lewis Hamilton has just responded pretty irritably to being asked to make some changes in the cockpit.

    "How many changes do you guys want me to do, can I just focus on driving?" comes the reply from the championship leader.

  9. Chequered flagpublished at 10:31 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

  10. Get involved - #bbcf1published at 10:25 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    George Taylor: Maurizio should re-watch the Green Cross Code on crossing an active road. Or pit lane!

    greenImage source, Getty Images

    David Prowse there, in the second-best acting gig he ever got.

  11. Toro Rosso team radiopublished at 10:24 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Max Verstappen: "It's undriveable, seriously. So much understeer at Turn Eight."

  12. Postpublished at 10:23 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Jennie Gow
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    Vettel in the garage...

    vettelImage source, Jennie Gow

    Vettel stopped out on track earlier with what has been diagnosed with a gearbox problem. We won't be seeing him on track until FP2.

  13. Get involved - #bestf1erapublished at 10:19 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Johnny Servoz GavinImage source, Getty Images
    Image caption,

    Johnny Servoz Gavin at the wheel of a 1967 Matra

    Cynical Human: 1967 was the peak of car design for mechanical grip and no aero. Great cars, great drivers and great circuits.

    Ash: The 80s-90s were the best eras. Senna-Prost battles, Schumacher and Ferrari, and Murray Walker with the facts.

    Michael Brown: Schumacher/Hakkinen. Everything was all out, very little conservation.

    schumacherImage source, Getty Images
  14. Palmer running wellpublished at 10:13 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    A quick check on Jolyon Palmer's progress for you.

    The Lotus test driver - in for Romain Grosjean for this session - is running in 10th place, one tenth and two place ahead of regular driver Pastor Maldonado.

  15. Fuel-saving 'an art' - Hulkenbergpublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Andrew Benson
    Chief F1 writer

    "The Canadian Grand Prix has reignited the debate about the state of F1, with many fans objecting to the requirement on the drivers in Montreal to save fuel during the race. We've addressed this issue in a major feature this week already. Many fans are comparing F1 unfavourably with the world endurance championship, there being a growing belief that the drivers in sportscars are flat out for longer than those in F1.

    "When it comes to tyre usage, that is certainly true, but there is a lot of misinformation going around about this when it comes to fuel-saving - as Force India's Nico Hulkenberg, who won Le Mans on his debut last weekend, explains.

    Nico HulkenbergImage source, Getty Images

    "'To do lift and coast in Formula 1 is quite easy - you just left off and coast down. The difficulty is to do it efficiently and to lose as little lap time as possible. When you do it your braking point varies, so it's quite difficult for us to judge, you know, where the actual braking point has moved. To get close to that target, I think that's the art, that's what makes it difficult. In WEC we also have quite a bit of lift and coast. They have different fuel regulations, they're even tighter than here in F1, so fuel management is quite crucial there.'"

  16. Catching JB unawarespublished at 10:08 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    No no no, Jenson Button.

    If someone takes you by surprise with a camera, the standard procedure (as I have perfected over the years) is to half-close your eyes, slacken your jaw to give your mouth a lovely 'lolling' look, and generally try and look as ugly as possible.

    This is far too flattering.

    McLaren F1 driver Jenson ButtonImage source, Getty Images
  17. Top 10 checkpublished at 10:07 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Just under 25 minutes to go. Not a lot of change in the order.

    Nico Rosberg leads the way on a 1:10.401, with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton 0.308secs back.

    Then it's Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, Max Verstappen of Toro Rosso and Sergio Perez of Force India. Carlo Sainz rounds out the current top six in the second Toro Rosso.

  18. Get involved - #bestf1erapublished at 10:04 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Peter Guenter: Surely the Schumi/Hill era. Those battles were legendary! The entire '90s basically.

    Liam Geraghty: 1998-2001 Hakkinen v Schumacher. Some titanic tussles and wonderful overtaking moves.

    Lukas Redl: For me it would be 2000-2008 when F1 was on the edge, cars were difficult to drive, drivers were making mistakes.

    Michael Schumacher leads from Damon HillImage source, Getty Images
  19. Postpublished at 10:04 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    Honda on Twitter:, external After some great work by the McLaren Honda engineers Alonso has made it back out on track for FP1.

    HondaImage source, Honda F1
  20. Button locks up toopublished at 10:01 British Summer Time 19 June 2015

    buttonImage source, F1

    Jenson Button has joined Lewis Hamilton in locking a tyre into turn one.

    The 2009 champion tries to carry on but the tyre is flat-spotted and excessive vibration forces the McLaren man into the pits.