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Friday practice sessions are a funny thing.

For starters, you don't expect there to be a lot of excitement, as the end result equals precisely nothing. From my point of view, getting to see a session is about as rare as rocking horse poo. Today though, I saw most of free practice 2 as I was luxuriating in the warm embrace of a day off work. Contrary to popular belief, I do actually have a job and go to work sometimes... I'm not always on holiday.

You know what? I really enjoyed it. For starters, the 5Live commentary team are actually really good, and with the luckless Karun Chandhok once again without a drive, his insights were not only interesting, insightful and informative, but he was also pretty good at it and funny to boot.

I'd like to suggest to the BBC that they drop Jonathan Legard and give Karun the job instead.

Anyway, for what it's worth, Vettel was fastest in FP2, which was a bit of a surprise, as it was widely assumed that the McLa's would be comfortably out front.

Ah... race weekend at another classic track. I love Formula 1. Roll on tomorrow.

(Tonight it's some upbeat Blues from Little Milton, currently the track "Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World)". I've no idea what the means. Good tune though!)
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