Hello and welcome to our LIVE coverage of Free Practice 2 from the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. All starting at 1pm UK time!

Thanks for joining us for the two free practice sessions for the German Grand Prix today. The third, tomorrow morning, is at 10am UK time, with qualifying at 1pm. We'll be back then.

A glum Schumi looks on as they salvage his machine, and the day's driving is over, with Pastor Maldonado fastest in the second session but the real times set earlier today. Bit of a messy one, that.

Despite the red flag, a couple of riders had warm-down laps. Odd. Anyway, that's that for now.

Rosberg had already gone in it turns out - he's found out all he needs to know. Not really sure what people could have learned today, very patchy.

Red flag is out - Schumi skidded off into the barriers and his day is over, was back in 23rd after failing to progress from a promising start. He's fuming. Team-mate Rosberg is right up there though, second behind Maldonado, whose time won't be threatened.

Not much has been happening time-wise - but Schumacher has flown off!

Less rainy now but not enough time for it to dry off. Many will decide they've had enough, but there could be a few late fliers.

Ricciardo has gone off and he's also had enough. Seventh the Toro Rosso man.

Grosjean has had enough, he pits and gets out, he lies fifth as we stand, just under a second shy of Maldonado. Can't see much of a change, although with the Ferraris still out there you never know. They've slid right back - Massa 12 and Alonso 20 - but have the pace provided the adapt quickly.

It is now very wet and there is no impact on Maldonado's leading time from 15 mins ago.

Oops. Lewis flies off the hairpin, so no, he did not make the right decision. His engineer tells him to cool it.

Lewis, who is right down in 19th, has gone back out on the intermediates; Schumi is on the wets. Maldonado is leading, still on that aforementioned 1:27.46 time before the rained again.

The new downpour has swelled the previously drying puddles and channels and it's all getting a bit messy now.

Vettel pits, and takes on the slicks. Ballsy. And then it rains, so Red Bull shove him back in.

So, if the rain comes down heavily again then Maldonado could find himself with the fastest time - by the time everyone swicthes back to the wets there may not be much time left. Just as they were getting right for dry weather tyres. May as well stick to intermediates before pulling in?

The track is drying now, but the rain is coming. Not as quickly as predicted, but it's on its way.

Maldonada has shaved another second off now as we get close to moving under 1:27. The drops are getting narrower, but we still have half an our.

So the target really should be around 1:16, given the conditions. And given the rate at which they've been dropping the times, that should be possible.

Massa has now dipped under 1:30, the first to do so, but he's quickly joined by Perez as things start to get competitive.

We're losing about a second every two minutes now as they approach maximal speed. Grosjean is now under 1:31, all pretty fluid.