Thursday Practice Report
Monaco GP
Nico Rosberg yet again topped the free practice timesheets ahead of this weekend Monaco Grand prix. Rosberg had ended the first session in 7th place but after a battle for supremacy with Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the day at 1m 15.243s edging Hamilton down into second place. It was a better start to the weekend for Hamilton who was third fastest in Practice 1 with an aggressive drive. The dominant Brawn GP cars of Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button were well placed at third and 4th fastest with Barrichello having topped out the earlier session. Felipe Massa and Sebastian Vettel rounded out the top 6. Heikki Kovalainen and Kimi Raikkonen were next up in 7th and 8th with Kazuki Nakajima and Nelson Piquet closing out the top ten fastest in the final session.Robert Kubica failed to set a time in the second session suffering a rare BMW engine failure on the exit of Ste Devote. Other than that and a few trips up the escape road everyone avoided the barriers which is something of an achievement in itself.
