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Kimi Räikkönen was the fastest driver on the wet track at the first day of practice at the Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos. But after the track dried up the two McLaren Mercedes pilots set the pace in Brazil.

The racetrack of Interlagos was very wet in the first free practice and therefore Kimi completet only a few laps. He managed to absolve a total of nine laps and in the end he set in 1:19.580 minutes the fastest time of the first practice session. Kimi's teammate Felipe Massa followed with a gap of 0.482 seconds on the second place. Heikki Kovalainen and Nico Rosberg were placed behind the two Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton merely achieved the fifth place with his lap time of 1:21.121 minutes.

Kimi then could absolve the second free practice on a drying up track. He completed a total of 30 laps and set in 1:13.112 minutes the fourth fastest time. The McLaren Mercedes pilot Lewis Hamilton was the fastest driver on track in the second practice session after setting a lap time of 1:12.767 minutes. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa achieved the second or third position behind the Brit.

"As usual on Friday, it is difficult to understand exactly where we stand compared to the others. That was probably even more the case today given the track conditions. This morning in the wet, we just checked that the car was okay and then in the afternoon, especially the first part of the session, the track still had some damp patches. Then, when conditions improved, we came up against a bit of traffic. We are reasonably happy with the way today went, but there is still a lot of room for improvement on the car."

2nd Free Practice
 

Pos  Driver  Team  Laps  Time  Gap  1.  L. Hamilton McLaren 27  1:12.767    2.  F. Alonso McLaren 28  1:12.889  0.122  3.  F. Massa Ferrari 30  1:13.075  0.308  4.  K. Raikkonen Ferrari 30  1:13.112  0.345  5.  G. Fisichella Renault 22  1:13.549  0.782  6.  R. Kubica BMW 34  1:13.587  0.820  7.  N. Rosberg Williams 33  1:13.655  0.888  8.  K. Nakajima Williams  38  1:13.664  0.897  9.  D. Coulthard Red Bull 30  1:13.706  0.939  10.  N. Heidfeld BMW 44  1:13.785  1.018  11.  R. Schumacher Toyota 29  1:13.829  1.062  12.  H. Kovalainen Renault 28  1:13.879  1.112  13.  R. Barrichello Honda 45  1:13.892  1.125  14.  J. Button Honda 44  1:14.095  1.328  15.  V. Liuzzi Toro Rosso 33  1:14.152  1.385  16.  J. Trulli Toyota 25  1:14.179  1.412  17.  S. Vettel Toro Rosso 37  1:14.409  1.642  18.  T. Sato Super Aguri 27  1:14.431  1.664  19.  A. Davidson Super Aguri 31  1:14.477  1.710  20.  M. Webber Red Bull 35  1:14.543  1.776  21.  A. Sutil Spyker 35  1:15.095  2.328  22.  S. Yamamoto Spyker 32  1:15.715  2.948

1st Free Practice
 

Pos  Driver  Team  Laps  Time  Gap  1.  K. Raikkonen Ferrari 9  1:19.580    2.  F. Massa Ferrari 10  1:20.062  0.482  3.  H. Kovalainen Renault 19  1:20.829  1.249  4.  N. Rosberg Williams 14  1:21.064  1.484  5.  L. Hamilton McLaren 10  1:21.121  1.541  6.  R. Schumacher Toyota 22  1:21.243  1.663  7.  S. Vettel Toro Rosso 22  1:21.598  2.018  8.  M. Webber Red Bull 12  1:22.104  2.524  9.  J. Trulli Toyota 26  1:22.104  2.524  10.  V. Liuzzi Toro Rosso 17  1:22.250  2.670  11.  R. Barrichello Honda 23  1:22.434  2.854  12.  J. Button Honda 22  1:22.477  2.897  13.  D. Coulthard Red Bull 16  1:22.667  3.087  14.  T. Sato Super Aguri 19  1:22.929  3.349  15.  A. Sutil Spyker 30  1:23.248  3.668  16.  K. Nakajima Williams 26  1:23.261  3.681  17.  A. Davidson Super Aguri 20  1:23.551  3.971  18.  S. Yamamoto Spyker 25  1:24.366  4.786  19.  N. Heidfeld BMW 1  -  -  20.  R. Kubica BMW 1  -  -  21.  F. Alonso McLaren 1  -  -  22.  G. Fisichella Renault 1  -  -