Kubica resting after busy Friday

Robert Kubica was able to move his BMW up to eighth place in Belgium's second free practice session on Friday afternoon. After rain lost the teams approximately an hour and a quarter of dry running time in the morning, the Pole spent the second session playing a game of catch-up.

With rain falling early on in the morning session, teams made the most of a warm second practice in which a drying track became a dry one as runs progressed. "The conditions today were quite changeable," Kubica explained. "We started the first practice session on dry tyres but it started to rain pretty soon as we were only able to do one timed lap on dry tyres at the start of the session.

"We took advantage of the weather conditions and did a couple of laps on full wet tyres, just to see how the car behaved in case of rain. We had to squeeze quite a lot into the second free practice session and, on top of that, we evaluated the tyres and worked on the setup. It was quite difficult as we had to cram several things into a very tight programme. We even had to mix several evaluations in one run. We also have a couple of new components on the car."

With Robert winding up in the same position where he finished the European Grand Prix to collect a point last Sunday, team-mate Nick Heidfeld's day ended in 16th spot.

Source: GP Update