2013 German Grand Prix Friday practice two

Track temperature is up to 28 degrees Celsius, as we wait for the fun to get started. The teams will get straight into a run this time around.

Di Resta is also strapped in the other car, while the mechanics work on some last-minute changes at the rear.

Adrian Sutil is strapped into his Force India and waiting with no tyres on the car just yet. The German is keen to get into the action this afternoon.

Weather conditions have remained constant since the end of first practice. It is overcast around the Eifel Mountains, but the good news is that there is no rain showing anywhere around north-west Germany, so we should get away with another dry session.

Air temperature has reached today's maximum of 20 degrees Celsius.

Nurburgring

Hello everyone and welcome back to AUTOSPORT Live, as we continue with coverage and rolling updates from round nine of the 2013 FIA Formula 1 world championship - the German Grand Prix from the Nurburgring.

Lewis Hamilton went some way to taking back what fate took away from him last weekend at Silverstone, by topping the first practice session for Mercedes earlier today with a lap time of 1m31.754s. The Briton edged out team-mate Nico Rosberg by just over two-tenths of a second, with Mark Webber third, but the Australian was more than one second off the benchmark time.

The main news from this morning's session was that Fernando Alonso wasn't able to complete a single lap - his Ferrari dramatically slowing to a halt just after Turn 4 on his lap out of the pits. He lost the whole session and will need to play catch-up this afternoon.

Hamilton leads Rosberg in P1

Teams will start off with a run of around seven laps at the start of the upcoming practice, before they move into detailed tyre work and testing with Pirelli's medium compound. The final phase of the 90-minute session will involve a heavy fuel load and the task of gathering important data for Sunday's race and tyre durability.