WilliamsF1 8th & 9th in 3rd Canadian practice


Montoya
By Andrew Hooper
June 12 2004

The BMW WilliamsF1 team would see its drivers 8th & 9th after the 3rd Canadian practice session. Juan pablo would improve from his poor Friday time to be eighth while Ralf was one place behind in ninth. Again both drivers struggled to set competitive times.

   
Canadian GP Saturday 3rd Practice
 
For the BMW WilliamsF1 team the opening Saturday practice in Canada would see Juan Pablo improve from his lowly twentieth position to now be in eighth but Ralf was not able to bring his times closer to those at the front. he would be one place behind Juan Pablo in ninth

Ralf SchumacherThe session was started at the early time of 8:00am and it would be Ferrari's Michael Schumacher who would finish fastest. In the closing moments of the session he would put in a time of 1m:13.865, the fastest time so far, to be 0.081 seconds ahead of Renault's  Fernando Alonso.

BAR-Honda driver Jenson Button finished third fastest, just 0.182 seconds behind Michael Schumacher. Rubens Barrichello finished in fourth position while early pace setter Jarno Trulli secured fifth place for Renault.

The McLaren pair of Kimi Raikkonen and David Coulthard were sixth and seventh. Following them were the BMW WilliamsF1 drivers with Juan Pablo leading Ralf. The final top ten position went to Sauber's Giancarlo Fisichella.

Friday pace setter BAR's Takuma Sato would not set a time after completing just four out-and-in laps. It was suggested the team was saving his Honda engine for qualifying.
 
Pos Driver Team Time Laps

1. M. Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:13.865 13
2. Alonso Renault (M) 1:13.946 + 0.081 9
3. Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:14.047 + 0.182 10
4. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:14.284 + 0.419 12
5. Trulli Renault (M) 1:14.421 + 0.556 11
6. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:14.584 + 0.719 7
7. Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:14.747 + 0.882 7
8. Montoya WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:15.067 + 1.202 17
9. R. Schumacher WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:15.191 + 1.326 13
10. Fisichella Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:15.290 + 1.425 10
11. da Matta Toyota (M) 1:15.573 + 1.708 13
12. Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:15.764 + 1.899 16
13. Panis Toyota (M) 1:15.843 + 1.978 13
14. Webber Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:15.854 + 1.989 6
15. Klien Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:16.124 + 2.259 10
16. Heidfeld Jordan-Ford (B) 1:16.305 + 2.440 15
17. Glock Jordan-Ford (B) 1:16.928 + 3.063 13
18. Bruni Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:18.409 + 4.544 15
19. Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:18.711 + 4.846 15
20. Sato BAR-Honda (M) No Time 4 
 
 
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