Montoya faster than Ralf in 2nd Saturday practice

At the end of the session it would be McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen who would finish fastest. The sector times showed that the McLaren's had an advantage over the first the first sector while Ferrari reverses this by been dominate in the second where mechanical grip is more important.

Michael Schumacher finished in second ahead of David Coulthard in the other McLaren, and the BMW WilliamsF1 drivers Montoya and Ralf Schumacher.

In a reversal of their earlier times it would be Mika Salo who would set the fastest time for Toyota finishing this session in seventh. Team-mate McNish having dropped way down the order to eighteenth.

Olivier Panis was eighth, while Pedro de la Rosa, driving Jaguar that was significantly improved was ninth.

Renault's Jenson Button took tenth, followed by Jordan’s Giancarlo Fisichella, Jaguar’s Eddie Irvine, and Jacques Villeneuve.

For the Sauber team the weekend has seen both their drivers struggle with Felipe Massa and Nick Heidfeld fourteenth and seventeenth.

Jarno Trulli in the Renault was fifteenth, followed by Sato, Heidfeld, McNish, and the Minardi pair of Mark Webber and Anthony Davidson.