Turkish GP: Massa fastest in opening practice

Felipe Massa means all business this weekend in Istanbul

Ferrari

Felipe Massa topped the times in the opening practice session on Friday morning for Sunday's Turkish GP Formula 1 race.

The Brazilian has won the past two Turkish Grands Prix and, looks keen on making it a hat-trick this weekend.

After coming back from a big shunt and concussion in Spain, Heikki Kovalainen, was ahead of his teammate Hamilton again

McLaren

However, the Maranello team didn’t enjoy a trouble-free start as world champion Kimi Raikkonen suffering a gearbox problem and ending the session at the bottom of the timesheets.

Heikki Kovalainen made a return to the cockpit after his huge Spanish GP crash, setting the second fastest time, just 0.133s behind Massa.

Results

POS	DRIVER	NATIONALITY	TEAM	TIME
1.	Felipe Massa	Brazil	Ferrari	1:27.323
2.	Heikki Kovalainen	Finland	McLaren-Mercedes	1:27.456
3.	Lewis Hamilton	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:27.752
4.	Fernando Alonso	Spain	Renault	1:28.284
5.	Jenson Button	Britain	Honda	1:28.919
6.	Kazuki Nakajima	Japan	Williams-Toyota	1:29.002
7.	Nick Heidfeld	Germany	BMW Sauber	1:29.024
8.	Rubens Barrichello	Brazil	Honda	1:29.068
9.	Nelson Piquet	Brazil	Renault	1:29.082
10.	Timo Glock	Germany	Toyota	1:29.103
11.	Jarno Trulli	Italy	Toyota	1:29.329
12.	Robert Kubica	Poland	BMW Sauber	1:29.330
13.	Nico Rosberg	Germany	Williams-Toyota	1:29.367
14.	Adrian Sutil	Germany	Force India-Ferrari	1:29.756
15.	Giancarlo Fisichella	Italy	Force India-Ferrari	1:29.811
16.	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	1:30.088
17.	David Coulthard	Britain	Red Bull-Renault	1:30.340
18.	Sebastien Bourdais	France	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:30.388
19.	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:30.426
20.	Kimi Raikkonen	Finland	Ferrari	1:30.732