Adrian Sutil set the fastest lap in Friday Practice 1. Fernando Alonso was second in the Ferrari and Robert Kubica third.
HRT failed to get Karun Chandhok’s car running, meaning he didn’t set a time in FP1. Bruno Senna and Lucas di Grassi both failed to set hot laps. None of these three drivers therefore are in my analysis tables and graphs below.
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Fastest lap | Laps |
| 1 | Sutil | 01:56.583 | 18 |
| 2 | Alonso | 01:56.766 | 18 |
| 3 | Button | 01:57.000 | 19 |
| 4 | Kubica | 01:57.041 | 19 |
| 5 | Massa | 01:57.055 | 19 |
| 6 | Hamilton | 01:57.163 | 19 |
| 7 | Liuzzi | 01:57.194 | 19 |
| 8 | Rosberg | 01:57.199 | 15 |
| 9 | Webber | 01:57.255 | 17 |
| 10 | Schumacher | 01:57.662 | 16 |
| 11 | Alguersuari | 01:57.722 | 18 |
| 12 | Hulkenberg | 01:57.894 | 20 |
| 13 | Vettel | 01:57.943 | 17 |
| 14 | Buemi | 01:58.399 | 13 |
| 15 | Barrichello | 01:58.782 | 11 |
| 16 | Petrov | 01:58.880 | 13 |
| 17 | de la Rosa | 02:00.250 | 18 |
| 18 | Kobayashi | 02:01.388 | 11 |
| 19 | Glock | 02:03.680 | 8 |
| 20 | Kovalainen | 02:03.848 | 12 |
| 21 | Trulli | 02:03.970 | 15 |
Fastest laps compared with laps set
Driver consistency
N.B. Out & in laps are not included in the consistency chart.
