Raikkonen first in downbeat practice session

Minardi chose not to run their cars in the first of this morning’s practice sessions for the British Grand Prix out of respect for sporting director John Walton, who died late yesterday.

Walton, partner of ITV presenter Louise Goodman, suffered a heart attack in the early hours of Monday morning before passing away at the age of 46 with his family at his bedside at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.