Silverstone - What a scrap! Crash during practice for the opening Grand Prix of Great Britain (Sunday, 14 clock, RTL and Premiere live).
Only the explode Fernando Alonso of Renault engine. On the slippery slope of oil track world championship leader Felipe Massa at a speed of 300 into the tire barrier. Then it hit the Toyota duo Timo Glock / Jarno Trulli. And in the end of the Williams-Toyota from Japan's Kazuki Nakajima takes a quick nose surgery.
Particularly galling to the "Batmobile" from Cologne. For as an advertisement for the new Batman movie "Dark Night" partly black lacquered red-white breaks the clutch) (Glock and then the rear wing off (Trulli).
Glock in the Toyota needs to watch box, embarks as his Italian colleague violently into the tire barrier. Diagnosis: Wheel up at Toyota, hangover with Trulli. The safe side, he can stretch it checked by a doctor.
"With Timo's was the clutch, when Jarno we obviously had problems with rear wing. But we have to analyze the erstmal Part of what has happened, "said chief engineer Dieter Gass and admits:" That was obviously the worst-case scenario today. So we imagined after Jarno's not the marvelous third place at Magny-Cours. "
Trulli at the accident site was in the 1st Training sessions have also embarked on Massa's Ferrari. In record time, a new car was built. The Brazilian was able to drive again in the afternoon, but remained at a slow track with his morning time expectant Tagesschnellster.
