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Free Practice 1 results:

Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps
1 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:15.382
2 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:15.447 0.065
3 1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.154 0.772
4 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:16.214 0.832
5 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:16.268 0.886
6 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.277 0.895
7 9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:16.338 0.956
8 17 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 1:16.407 1.025
9 10 Robert Kubica BMW 1:16.441 1.059
10 12 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:16.603 1.221
11 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 1:16.895 1.513
12 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:16.967 1.585
13 8 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:16.990 1.608
14 7 Jenson Button Honda 1:17.047 1.665
15 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 1:17.103 1.721
16 23 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:17.166 1.784
17 11 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:17.168 1.786
18 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:17.226 1.844
19 4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:17.348 1.966
20 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:17.435 2.053
21 21 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 1:18.178 2.796
22 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 1:18.419 3.037

Free Practice 2 results:

Felipe Massa turned the tables on his Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in the second free practice session for the French Grand Prix as the Brazilian ended Friday fastest of all at Magny-Cours.

Ferrari appears to have rediscovered its form in France, and after a dominant performance in the morning session, where Raikkonen was fastest, Massa and the Finn continued the second session in a similar vein.

Lewis Hamilton got a full afternoon's work in this time and managed to go fourth fastest, just 0.32s behind the red cars but nearly 0.3s faster than team-mate Fernando Alonso (eighth).

The stars of the session were undoubtedly those driving Adrian Newey-designed cars however.

The Scuderia Toro Rosso team, which has promised on occasion in recent races, obliterated the form book with Scott Speed and Vitantonio Liuzzi third and fifth.

David Coulthard in the Renault-powered Red Bull version of the machine was sixth fastest. Team-mate Mark Webber might have been in the mix as well, but the Aussie was forced to pull of the track halfway through the session.

McLaren will show their true pace in quali. I never take practice results seriously.

It's even more difficult to take these results seriously when the STRs are so fast. I think rain is forecast on the weekend and we know Massa is not exactly Senna-esque on wet tracks.

Also, what's wrong with Alonso? Is he deliberately driving slowly so Hamy cannot get his setup info and telemetry data? I wouldn't put it past him. I'm sure Alonso knows he can be fast on Saturday, but perhaps he wants Hamilton to struggle to find his own setup. I wonder if Mclaren will order Alonso's engineer to share telemetry.

Wow, two Chuck Norris-inspired signatures in back-to-back posts!

Chuck Norris is king

Wil change my Chuck Norris thingy now..

Chuck Norris is as much of an idiot as Alonso... As for F1, Mclaren are holding back, give Ferrari conferdence, then kill them in quali...

Practice results are not be taken seriously like Montreal and Indy.

i expect Ferrari will pick their pace this weekend. it'll be like a ping pong match between Massa and Kimster for the pole. however, the rain will surely give us something to think about..

Saturday Free Practise times

1: Hamilton (1:14.843)
2: Massa (1:14.906)
3: Raikkonen (1:15.276)
4: Kovalinen (1:15.404)
5: Fisichella (1:15.489)
6: Kubica (1:15.535)
7: Rosberg (1:15.735)
8: Alonso (1:15.742) Not sure why yet, but he only completed 1 flying lap
9: Trulli (1:15.801)
10: Coulthard (1:15.802)
11: Liuzzi (1:15.872)
12: Button (1:15.902)
13: Davidson (1:15.925)
14: R.Schumacher (1:15.944)
15: Heidfeld (1:16.060)
16: Barrichello (1:16.102)
17: Wurz (1:16.104)
18: Speed (1:16.161)
19: Sato (1:16.221)
20: Webber (1:16.573)
21: Sutil (1:17.517)
22: Albers (1:17.705)

Ferrari has a good chance to take the cake this time. I hope.