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Welome to F1 Minute, it’s the 13th September.

Free Practice 3 was wet, and very little meaningful running took place, although Hamilton and a few brave drivers did take to the track. When qualifying began, it was still raining, but the first session looked like things were going to plan, as both Honda’s, Nakajima and Sutil were all knocked out. Finally, after proclaiming it their target all year, Force India got through to the second session with Fisichella at the wheel. McLaren appeared to make a bad decision in Q2, sending Hamilton out for one lap on intermediate tyres. He returned to the pits for extreme wets, but couldn’t get a lap time together, and finished that session at the back, starting 15th on the grid, just behind Raikkonen.

In Q3, Massa and Kovalainen were the soul representatives of the top two teams, but it was Toro Rosso who made it work. Vettel took an early lead, when conditions were less wet, and as it began to rain once more, no one could beat it. The Italian squad start their home race from their first pole position.

That’s it for today, join me again tomorrow with all the info from what’s bound to be an incredible race.

Published by Christine on 13 Sep 2008 at 02:24 pm

Tags: Adrian Sutil, Felipe Massa, Force India, Free Practice, Giancarlo Fisichella, Heikki Kovalainen, Honda, Italy, Kazuki Nakajima, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Sebastian Vettel, Toro Rosso