Ralf continues to show good form in final practice
By Andrew Hooper
April 19 2003
| San Marino GP Saturday 2nd Practice | |
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final free practice session for the San Marino GP weekend would see Ralf
Schumacher finish with the second fastest time and Juan Pablo eighth. But
for Ralph his session would be ruined when he was to crash his car heavily
into the tyre barrier in the last sector.
Ralf would climb from the
wreckage of his FW25 without any injuries but it was not what the team
wanted as they prepare for this afternoons final qualifying. Soon he would be
joined by Michael Schumacher who quickly would go to the top of the
timesheets, pulling two tenths out on Raikkonen’s morning practice time.
Renault's Fernando Alonso would move into fourth but it would be Ralf who
would beat his brothers time with a lap of 1m:22.897. |
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Driver Team Time Laps 1. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:22.819 214.429 km/h 30 2. R. Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:22.897 + 0.078 23 3. Webber Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:22.958 + 0.139 18 4. Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:22.962 + 0.143 33 5. M. Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:22.974 + 0.155 33 6. Alonso Renault (M) 1:23.042 + 0.223 39 7. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:23.198 + 0.379 31 8. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:23.769 + 0.950 33 9. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:24.098 + 1.279 30 10. Panis Toyota (M) 1:24.099 + 1.280 28 11. Fisichella Jordan Ford (B) 1:24.132 + 1.313 24 12. Button BAR Honda (B) 1:24.178 + 1.359 38 13. Trulli Renault (M) 1:24.332 + 1.513 35 14. da Matta Toyota (M) 1:24.683 + 1.864 37 15. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:24.747 + 1.928 30 16. Firman Jordan Ford (B) 1:24.763 + 1.944 27 17. Frentzen Sauber Petronas (B) 1:25.332 + 2.513 6 18. Verstappen Minardi Cosworth (B) 1:25.745 + 2.926 25 19. Wilson Minardi Cosworth (B) 1:25.945 + 3.126 20 20. Pizzonia Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:26.195 + 3.376 17 |
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Jordan’s
Ralph Firman would be the first driver to take to the track, he would
later stop with technical problems ending in sixteenth.