The incident brought out the red flags, while circuit workers - and street sweeping trucks - attempted to mop up the oil with a sizeable trail of concrete powder.

The session re-started with 14 minutes of the 90 minute session to run. Massa, who drives for Ferrari, headed the time sheets at the time of the crash.

2008 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX - Practice 1

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:19.575		8
2	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:19.587	0.012	15
3	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:19.623	0.048	13
4	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:19.948	0.373	16
5	4	Robert Kubica	BMW	1:20.367	0.792	11
6	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:20.436	0.861	7
7	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	1:20.588	1.013	18
8	6	Nelson Piquet	Renault	1:20.653	1.078	16
9	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	1:20.698	1.123	16
10	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:20.744	1.169	27
11	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:20.892	1.317	10
12	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	1:21.102	1.527	22
13	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW	1:21.107	1.532	18
14	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	1:21.166	1.591	17
15	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:21.265	1.690	22
16	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:21.282	1.707	21
17	16	Jenson Button	Honda	1:21.901	2.326	7
18	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	1:22.169	2.594	16
19	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	1:22.219	2.644	19
20	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:24.123	4.548	4