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Far from being encouraging, the results of today's Practice Session in Bahrain have shown in fact how difficult is the Sakhir Circuit for the young drivers at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. I have given up any chance of seeing Lewis & Heikki starting the tomorrow's race from the first line in the grid, so I expect them to achieve honourable places in the SAT Qualifying session, that will commence in less than an hour, at 14:00 (GMT+2). Below are the results of the day up to the moment:

SAT Practice
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps
1 7 Nico Rosberg W.Toyota 1:32.521 17
2 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:32.726 0.205 10
3 10 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:32.742 0.221 16
4 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:32.901 0.380 18
5 9 David Coulthard Red Bull 1:32.918 0.397 14
6 8 Kazuki Nakajima W.Toyota 1:33.020 0.499 16
7 4 Robert Kubica BMW 1:33.024 0.503 18
8 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:33.074 0.553 16
9 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:33.237 0.716 10
10 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 1:33.367 0.846 15
11 14 S. Bourdais STR 1:33.372 0.851 17
12 21 G. Fisichella F.India 1:33.392 0.871 20
13 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:33.445 0.924 13
14 17 R. Barrichello Honda 1:33.551 1.030 18
15 12 Timo Glock Toyota 1:33.595 1.074 20
16 16 Jenson Button Honda 1:33.600 1.079 17
17 15 Sebastian Vettel STR 1:33.651 1.130 14
18 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:33.659 1.138 14
19 20 Adrian Sutil F.India 1:33.857 1.336 18
20 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:34.074 1.553 16
21 19 Anthony Davidson S.Aguri 1:34.591 2.070 18
22 18 Takuma Sato S.Aguri 1:34.952 2.431 16

The Timetable for the 2008 Bahrain GP-4th, 5th & 6th of April

FRI Practice 1 -- 10:00 (GMT+2)
FRI Practice 2 -- 14:00 (GMT+2)
SAT Practice -- 11:00 (GMT+2)
SAT Qualifying -- 14:00 (GMT+2)
SUN Race -- 14:30(GMT+2)

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