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Indeed he understeered at turn 1, hit the barrier with his left rear and the rear wing collapsed as a result.

Session restarted

20 minutes remain and the top 8 are: Hamilton, Rosberg, Massa, Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Alonso, Heidfeld and Kubica

Vettel is in 20th over 3 seconds off the pace.

Kubica takes 6th with a 1:16.296

Raikkonen in 3rd. Massa and Kovalainen improve in 4th and 5th

Piquet in 14th!

Hamilton nearly runs over someone as he exits his garage

With 4 minutes to go, Alonso has managed to get back to the track! Superb job by the mechanics

Sutil understeers into the barrier just before the pit entry!

Button takes 8th!

Final seconds and all the cars are on the track except the 2 Force India cars

Session over - Top 8: Hamilton, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Massa, Kovalainen, Kubica, Alonso and Button.

Timo Glock covered the most number of laps with 46 followed by Jenson Button with 45

Thanks Ed.

Rosberg performance on the track is interesting.

Cheers to Webber for his off-track exploits!

Full results from the 2nd Thursday practice:

Rank Driver Team Best Lap/Gap Total Laps
1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.140 40
2 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 0.393 39
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 0.432 42
4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 0.729 37
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 0.741 39
6 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1.156 34
7 Fernando Alonso Renault 1.170 27
8 Jenson Button Honda 1.211 45
9 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1.232 40
10 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1.278 32
11 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1.286 44
12 Timo Glock Toyota 1.548 46
13 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1.954 39
14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1.991 39
15 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 2.106 35
16 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 2.111 33
17 Jarno Trulli Toyota 2.239 28
18 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 2.441 38
19 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 3.036 31
20 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 3.085 38

Team by team summary following Thursday practice (GMM)

MCLAREN-MERCEDES

Lewis Hamilton lagged Kimi Raikkonen's morning pace, but his afternoon showing - when the Briton described his car as "great" - made him easily Thursday's fastest. Heikki Kovalainen started the day well but ended up over seven tenths shy of his teammate.

WILLIAMS-TOYOTA

Rookie teammate Kazuki Nakajima is not on his teammate's pace, but Nico Rosberg was fifth in the morning and a surprise second fastest in the afternoon session. "It looks like we have a good car here," he enthused.

FERRARI

Raikkonen's quickest morning time had become a nearly half-second deficit to Hamilton by the end of the day, and team boss Stefano Domenicali admitted that the F2008 is struggling to match McLaren's qualifying pace, particularly with the softest tyre. Felipe Massa, who openly dislikes Monaco, was consistently three tenths off his Finnish teammate's pace.

BMW-SAUBER

Nick Heidfeld, whose car at Monaco features aerodynamic wheel covers for the first time, had to stop his car in the morning and have an engine change in the break, but he was only a tenth or so off on-form teammate Robert Kubica's pace in the afternoon. "We now have to see how we can improve the car for Saturday," the Pole said.

RENAULT

2007 winner for McLaren, Fernando Alonso, was seventh in both Thursday practice sessions, even though in the afternoon he mirrored his struggling teammate Nelson Piquet's almost identical whack against the Sainte Devote barriers, which brought out the red flags.

HONDA

The RA108 is very much a car with which to aspire only for the lower points, and so it seemed to prove on Thursday, with Rubens Barrichello eighth quickest in the morning and Jenson Button in the same position in the afternoon.


TOYOTA

An awful day for 2004 winner Jarno Trulli, who glanced the barriers in both the morning and afternoon sessions, and his team revealed that he also encountered a problem with his car's floor. The highlight of Toyota's day was just twelfth place in the afternoon for Monaco newcomer Timo Glock, who ended both sessions in front of Trulli.


RED BULL-RENAULT

David Coulthard didn't set a time in the morning due to a throttle problem, and in the afternoon he and Mark Webber were two seconds off the ultimate pace. "At the moment the car is not suiting the track that well," Webber admitted.


FORCE INDIA-FERRARI

Giancarlo Fisichella made his now customary high-profile - and presumably low-fuel - practice run to tenth best in the morning, settling to 16th in the afternoon. Adrian Sutil was half a second off his teammate's pace in the morning, and nearly a full second behind in the final outing, when he clipped the barrier in the Rascasse and lost his front wing.


TORO ROSSO-FERRARI

Despite debuting the new STR3 at Monaco, Sebastian Vettel was Thursday's slowest runner in both sessions, but Sebastien Bourdais - albeit notably faster - is also unhappy. "I was fighting with the car on a circuit that I have always liked in the past," the F1 rookie, who raced at Monte Carlo in F3000, rued.

Saturday practice session about to stasrt.

The track is wet but it isn't raining at the moment.

Air temperature is 19 degrees while track temperature is 20 degrees

Session underway!

There are only a few patches of wet track