It's a practice session... of course nothing happened.

Oh, except for Lewis Hamilton destroying his car by trying to jam it through a tire barrier... sideways and backwards.  Pretty impressive, actually.  With about seven minutes left in the session, Hamilton came off a turn a little wide and got onto the curb.  That ruined the aerodynamics of the car pretty quick, and suddenly the car was swapping ends.

Sliding off the track and onto the asphalt runoff area, he had all four wheels locked up and still didn't lose much speed.  Boom, one dead McLaren.  Not as bad as Kubica's crash, or maybe even Hamilton's wreck in quals at the Nurb last season (when he got airborne and nearly flew over a tire wall), but pretty severe.

The McLaren mechanics will be up very, very late fixing that one.

The two Ferraris were fastest on the day, with the usual suspects right behind.  We'll see how it works out in quals, though.

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