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After a
difficult Friday practice for the 2011 Italian Grand Prix that saw both AT&T
Williams F1 cars off the pace and down in fifteenth and sixteenth the final
practice would show if the team could find any extra pace from the FW33.
With the start of the session both Rubens and Pastor would take to the track
early joined by the majority of the field. Last to come out would be Vettel
and Button followed by Hamilton. With Hamilton the only driver on the track
Massa would come back out. Hamilton would pit while D'Ambrosio came back
out. Massa
would pit while Kovalainen and Trulli were out on the track. Rosberg would
be next out joined by Di Resta and Schumacher. Alonso would be the first of
the Ferrari's to come back out as D'Ambrosio set a 1m:32.578.
More drivers started to leave the pit lane while Kovalainen was now fastest
with a 1m:29.327. Trulli was now second while for Williams Rubens would be
the first to take to the track. Pastor would follow him out as the track
became very busy. Alonso would pit seeing only the Ferrari's, Vettel, and
Hamilton still in their pits. Rosberg would be second with a 1m:29.453 but
more drivers would go faster with Schumacher moving to the top
of the times with a 1m:26.943. Perez was now second while Rosberg had moved
up to third. Di Resta moved into third with a 1m:27.185 while Schumacher
also improved with a 1m:26.153.
Rubens was now sixth with a time of 1m:28.042, running on the medium tyre.
Schumacher would suddenly find himself fourth as Rosberg went fastest with a
1m:24.957 from Button and Webber. Alguersuari was now fifth having been
second just before. Rosberg would improve with a 1m:24.688 while Weber was
now second, 1m:25.163. Rubens had dropped to thirteenth while Pastor had
come out and moved into fifth but it would become sixth,
1m:26.450. Hamilton was now third while Button was fourth. Rosberg would pit
while Rubens would improve to now be in ninth, 1m:26.657. Now it was
Button's turn to go fastest with a time of 1m:24.489. Vettel had moved up to
fifth, 1m:25.576, while Perez was in sixth. Pastor would take this spot with
a time of 1m:25.656. Vettel was now fourth, 1m:24.816, while team-mate
Webber would go fastest with a 1m:24.468.
Rubens would also find some pace moving into seventh, 1m:25.924, one place
behind Pastor. Rubens would pit with thirty four minutes remaining. Hamilton
had improved his time with a 1m:24.501 but remained third. Petrov would take
seventh from Rubens as the track became empty after the first runs. We only
had the Ferrari's yet to set times. Vettel was on an improve d lap, fastest
in sector two and three, moving to the top of the times with a 1m:24.000.
Both Alonso and Massa would come out with Alonso's first time seeing him
eleventh, 1m:26.027. More drivers would start to return to the track as
Massa moved into seventh, 1m:25.850. Alonso would move into this spot with a
1m:25.767, as Rosberg came back out followed by Button. Pastor was still in
sixth while Rubens had dropped to tenth. Massa would take sixth with a time
of 1m:25.647 but again team-mate Alonso would take this spot, 1m:25.247.
This would see Pastor drop to eighth.
Rosberg was out on the soft tyre as Alguersuari set a 1m:25.580 also on the
soft tyre to be eighth. More drivers were coming back out for their soft
tyre runs, including Pastor. Rosberg would use the soft tyres to good effect
to go fastest with a 1m:23.875. On the soft tyre Perez would move into
eighth, 1m:25.505, as Rosberg pitted. Rubens was still in his pit with
twenty minutes remaining as Pastor dropped to eleventh as Buemi moved into
tenth, 1m;25.607. Schumacher would improve from fourteenth up to third with
a 1m:24.114.
Webber was now fourth while Rubens was now out on the track with Vettel
coming out shortly after. Hamilton was out still on the medium tyre. For
team-mate Button his car was been worked on by his mechanics as they made
setup changes. Perez was now seventh, 1m:25.004, while Pastor and Rubens
were now twelfth and fourteenth.
Webber would pit still in fourth with a time of 1m:24.162. Hamilton would
also pit while Pastor would also come in. With thirteen minutes remaining
Rosberg would come back out while Vettel was on the track on a longer run.
Rubens would also pit finishing his run on the medium tyre. Ninth placed
Alonso was back out on the soft tyre joined by Massa. Kobayashi was now
tenth, 1m:25.261, as Alonso moved up to fourth, 1m:24.133, as Webber came
back out, joined by Button. Massa was on a quick lap, getting a tow from
Alonso, and he would set a 1m:24.346 to only be sixth. Rubens was back out
joined by most of the field. Both Williams cars were out on the soft tyre as
we had Button move into second with a 1m:23.896. Only Ricciardo was still in
the pit as we had Webber on an improved lap. Massa would go fastest with a
1m:23.668 but he was beaten by Webber with a 1m:23.569.
Vettel was also on a good lap as Hamilton moved into sixth, 1m:24.095.
Vettel with finish with a 1m:23.758 to be third. With three minutes
remaining Webber would improve his time with a 1m:23.534. Pastor and Rubens
would be seventeenth and eighteenth, as Senna moved into fourteenth,
1m:25.316. Rubens would improve but could only manage fifteenth. Pastor was
now in eighteenth as Webber pitted. Senna would improve to be ninth,
1m:24.853, as Pastor pitted. Vettel would set the quickest time with thirty
seconds left in the session, with his time a 1m:23.170, to be 0.364 ahead of
his team-mate.
With the end of
the session it would be Vettel fastest from
Webber, Massa, Rosberg, Hamilton, Button, Rosberg, Schumacher, Alonso,
Sutil, and Di Resta tenth. For the Williams team their early pace in the
session faded away as the quicker times were set with Rubens and Pastor only
in fifteenth and eighteenth. Given their pace qualifying could be a very
brief session for the Williams team. The team may decide to save their tyres
knowing that they have no real chances of securing a top ten starting
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