Pizzonia 2nd in 3rd Hungarian practice

With cloudy skies and spots of rain prior to the start of practice the session would not see many drivers come out until late in the forty five minutes.

At the end of the session it would be Michael Schumacher who would return to the top of the times. He would set a lap time of 1m:20.216 in the closing minutes of the session. Prior to that it was Pizzonia who had set the fastest time with a lap of 1m:20.696. Antonio was backed up by Juan Pablo in third.

BAR's Jenson Button was to improve on his Friday time and would finish in fourth place. Rubens Barrichello was next in fifth with a time of 1m:20.830. Rubens was four-tenths ahead of Renault's Jarno Trulli. Team-mate, Fernando Alonso would finish in sixth.

After their impressive Friday times the McLaren pair of David Coulthard and Kimi Raikkonen would drop down the order. David would set a time of 1m:21.55 to finish in eighth. Raikkonen was two places further back in tenth place, a massive 1.6 seconds off the time set by Michael. In ninth was Sauber's Felipe Massa.

The Toyota team would see Olivier Panis and Ricardo Zonta finish in eleventh and twelfth. Giancarlo Fisichella was next in his Sauber, with Mark Webber posting a time of 1m:22.068 to be in fourteenth. Webber and Panis would go off the track during the session.