Michael Schumacher did today what many have been waiting since last year, lead times table, the German pilot veteran rose team Mercedes GP with the own expectations.
The seven times F1 World somehow champion cleared doubts that cercnian on the MGPW02 and faced the might of Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren.
With 112 laps during the day, the silver arrow was the fastest of the bunch.
However, met the best round of the German pilot was made with the tank completely empty, and there was too much consistency at the time of return during the session.
In second position in the time table, Felipe Massa was the only driver that shot than the 1'20. The Ferrari times indicate that the team was working with heavily loaded fuel in the afternoon when their time is was up to the 1'26 and 1'28.
Today the McLaren got off to a start slow with Jenson Button. The British times not falling 1 ' 23 until a couple of times in the afternoon, while Jaime Alguersuari got put Toro Rosso ST6 just behind the Mclaren in the fourth fastest time.
The Spanish caused one of the red flags of the day spun in the curve 9. Quiet was the day for Red Bull, with Mark Webber driving who was discreet but very regular times.
Today the Sauber team could do many laps, but never more than five followed. Sergio Perez he shortened slightly the programme planned by the Swiss team when crashed between curves 7 and 8 and damaged the front of the C30.
Force India improved today regarding yesterday, with Adrian Sutil VJM04 seemed to have no problems with excessive heating of yesterday. More discreet today was the Renault team with Vitaly Petrov who ended up claiming ownership to cause a red flag for losing control of his car in the curve 2 halfway through the morning.
Pastor Maldonado took a step further and has led to a break in the session after hitting his 4 Williams at the end of the curve.
Virgin Racing did some laps before the lunch, Timo Glock has put his best time in 1'22 ' 208 to finish the eighth best day registration.
Lotus was capable of doing some races in the morning, with Jarno Trulli, consisting of the 1m23s and 24 years in the soft tyre. But not returned to appear in the afternoon due to a mechanical unspecified problem that requires parts of its United Kingdom base.
