Into every life, a little rain must fall, but every fortnight?... Two weeks on from the incessant rain in Silverstone, this Friday in Hockenheim was also affected by adverse weather. At least here, the first session was partly spared, but the drops of rain fell intermittently which therefore made the management of the work planned by the Scuderia relatively complicated for this first day of the German Grand Prix. As usual on Friday, there were a lot of irons in the fire, in terms of updates on the F2012 for this race and for the rest of the season. In total, 78 laps were completed, equivalent to just over 350 kilometres.

	First session			Second session
Driver	Pos.	Time	Laps	Pos.	Time	Laps	Chassis
F. Alonso	3rd	1.17.370	21	20th	1.31.207	20	296
F. Massa	8th	1.17.995	22	12th	1.29.719	15	294

Weather
First session: air 18/20 °C, track 20/24 °C. Cloudy, light drops of rain
Second session: air 16/18 °C, track 21/22 °C. Cloudy, intermittent rain