Raikkonen sets early pace

Kimi Raikkonen blazed the early trail today with hopes understandably high that the engine failures that have dogged him in practice at the last two grands prix are behind him.

Raikkonen was the quickest of the race drivers in first practice for the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim on Sunday, with the McLaren star setting a time of one minute 15.634 seconds for the 4.574km circuit.