Red Bull's world champion Sebastian Vettel limbers up for what he hopes will be his sixth win of the season in first free practice for Sunday's race. The session starts at 09:00 UK time.

The next session starts at 13:00 UK time so come back and join us then

Karun Chandhok down at the bottom of the leaderboard the only man to not finish the race, and it was through no fault of his own, his gear box failing him and putting an end to his race

Button completing just 14 laps though so expect more from him in the second practice session this afternoon

Lewis Hamilton is in fourth place, followed by Nick Heidfeld, Felipe Massa and then Jenson Button down in seventh

Webber the only man to break the 1:41 mark with a 1:40.403

Mark Webber lead the way ahead of Vitaly Petrov and Fernando Alonso

The chequered flag goes up as the session comes to an end

Not so much of a crash, but Timo Glock has had a spin on the apex of turn four and is sitting prone on the far side of the corner. No damage or harm done, but it looks like his session is over

Jenson Button coming out for only his eleventh lap of the day trying to improve on his current 7th place

Sergio Perez may feel fine but I don't think his front right tyre does as it produces a huge plume of smoke as he locks up on a turn

Little movement up and down the leaderboard now as there is plenty of traffic

Michael Schumacher seems to have done as many laps as anyone as he completes another, but he can't improve on 11th place

There's an improvement from the world champion who moves into 14th place, but still way off the leader or even the top five, he's got a few minutes yet though

Sebastian Vettel now trying to improve on his disappointing 17th place and you would fully expect him to do so

Hamilton and Button have now both been pushed out of the top five, but Hamilton's out now trying to change the circumstances, and he manages to do so, displacing Massa by moving above him and Heidfeld to fourth

Maldonado practising a bit of drifting in his Williams, he clearly fancies it will come in useful on the street track

Jaime Alguersuari and Fernando Alonso come a little too close for comfort as the former locks up a little going round a corner, but any contact was avoided

Vitaly Petrov was available at 200/1 before this practice session, will his impressive performance so far tempt anyone in?

Petrov has improved his position further to second and is just 0.824 behind the leader Webber

Sauber's Sergio Perez says he is feeling well enough to take on the qualification tomorrow after doubts were raised about his fitness