During the Friday session Senna ran over a stone which put a sizeable hole in his cars undertray and the resulting damage would require a complete change of car, the problem being that the team only had three of the new transverse gearbox cars in Germany.
Durante a sesión do venres Senna pasou sobre unha pedra que fixo un buraco considerable nos baixos do seu coche e o dano resultante requiríu un cambio completo do coche, o problema que era que o equipo só tiña tres dos novos coches con caixa de cambios transversais en Alemaña.