Wurz best of WilliamsF1 drivers in Turkey


Alex Wurz
By Andrew Hooper
August 25 2006

Alex Wurz would finish the best of the WilliamsF1 drivers after the second Friday practice for the Turkish GP. Alex was down in nineteenth and Mark and Nico twenty first and twenty third. Based on their times tt is very hard to determine if the team is going to have another difficult weekend.

 
Turkish GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

The start of the second Friday practice session would see Giorgio Mondini, Yamamoto, Vettel and Alex Wurz leave the pit lane. Rookie Vettel was fined 1000 dollars for speeding in the pit lane in the earlier session. Jani and Davidson would also come out. Mondini would set the first time, 1`m:32.556 followed by Alex with a 1m:35.776. Vettel and Yamamoto would move into second and
third. Davidson would have an engine change after the failure of his original unit in the opening practice session.

WebberJani would move into fourth but it would be Davidson who would go fastest with a time of 1m:30.819. Jani was now in third, 1m:32.553, pushing Alex down to fifth. Vettel would pit. Ralf Schumacher would take to the track, joined by Montagny. Davidson would improve his time with a 1m:30.665. With ten minutes of the session run Doornbos would come out. Montagny would spin his car at turn nine. Jarno Trulli would also come out. We would finally get to see one of the WilliamsF1 race drivers as Nico headed out.

Trulli would spin at Turn thirteen on his first timed lap. Doornbos was now third fastest. Massa would head out as Vettel moved to the top of the times. Trulli was now fourth and Massa would go fastest ahead of Vettel and Davidson. Michael Schumacher would come out joined by Alonso and Fisichella. Mark would take to the track for the first time. Michael would go fastest on his his first timed lap. Both Button and Barrichello were out on the track as Scott Speed moved into third. But Button would move into second and Alonso third. Both Michael and Massa would pit. Fisichella's first lap would see him sixth.

WurzButton would improve but remained second behind Michael. Button and Alonso would pit as Pedro de la Rosa took to the track. He was joined by team-mate Raikkonen. On his first lap Pedro would go fastest with a 1m:29.112. Raikkonen was in fourth with a 1m:29.596. Mark was down in fifteenth, 1m:30.775, and Nico twenty first. Alonso was in fifth ahead of Massa. Both Mark and Nico continued to circulate around the track with eighteen minutes remaining. Nico would improve to now be in seventeenth, 1m:31.015. Mark was one place ahead of the German. Barrichello would move up the order to now be in fifth with a 1m:29.597. Nico had pitted. Ralf Schumacher would go fastest, 1m:28.614, ahead of Doornbos. But Vettel would move ahead of the pair with a time of 1m:28.091.

Davidson was on a quick lap and would move into second with a 1m:28.598. Mark and Nico were both back in their pits and were down the order in twentieth and twenty first respectively. Michael would come back out and was able to improve to now be in fourth with a 1m:28.844.

WurzWith four minutes left in the session both McLaren's were back out as Massa moved into second with a time of 1m:28.164. The order was Vettel, Massa, Davidson, Ralf, Michael, Doornbos, and de la Rosa. Kimi would improve to move ahead of his team-mate with a time of 1m:29.042. Mark and Nico were both back out on the track, joining Alex. Alex was currently in eighteenth. With the final minute left only four drivers were not out on the track. Button would improve six places and move into fourth with a 1m:28.599.

With the end of the session Mark and Nico were down in twenty first and twenty third. Vettel remained fastest from Massa, Button, Davidson, Ralf, Michael, Doornbos, Raikkonen, de la Rosa, and Barrichello making up the top ten. The fastest of the WilliamsF1 drivers was Alex but he was 2.4 seconds slower than the fastest time in the session.

 
Pos  Driver        Team                     Time     Laps
 1.  Vettel        BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:28.091 29
 2.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:28.164 18
 3.  Button        Honda               (M)  1:28.506 10
 4.  Davidson      Honda               (M)  1:28.598 31
 5.  R.Schumacher  Toyota              (B)  1:28.614 21
 6.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari             (B)  1:28.819 13
 7.  Doornbos      Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:28.848 15
 8.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:29.042 10
 9.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:29.112 10
10.  Barrichello   Honda               (M)  1:29.214 16
11.  Mondini       MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:29.719 27
12.  Alonso        Renault             (M)  1:29.741 16
13.  Jani          Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:29.858 30
14.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:29.890 20
15.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:30.006 18
16.  Montagny      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:30.491 25
17.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:30.502 9
18.  Fisichella    Renault             (M)  1:30.504 16
19.  Wurz          WilliamsF1-Cosworth (B)  1:30.509 36
20.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:30.551 17
21.  Webber        WilliamsF1-Cosworth (B)  1:30.775 13
22.  Klien         Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:30.889 16
23.  Rosberg       WilliamsF1-Cosworth (B)  1:31.015 17
24.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:31.091 11
25.  Yamamoto      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:31.316 21
26.  Monteiro      MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:31.519 15
27.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:31.526 10
28.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:31.540 10
29.  Albers        MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:32.102 7