WilliamsF1 3rd & 8th in final Hungarian practice

Pizzonia
By Andrew Hooper
August 14 2004

The BMW WilliamsF1 team would see their drivers finish in 3rd & 8th after the final Hungarian practice session. Pizzonia would again lead his more experienced team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya. Will Antonio be able to deliver in qualifying is the big question, after his poor qualifying in Germany.

	Hungarian GP Saturday 4th Practice
	For the BMW WilliamsF1 team the final practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix would see Antonio Pizzonia and Juan Pablo Montoya finish the session in fourth and eighth positions respectively. Both drivers certainly seem to have the pace. Juan Pablo would come out in the closing moments of the session and set the fastest first sector time only to abort his run. The final practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix would see the teams and drivers make their final preparations for this afternoon's qualifying. The first driver out would be Jaguar's Mark Webber. He would set a time of 1m:22.954. BAR's Jenson Button would move into first position with a lap of 1m:22.773. The session would see most drivers come out early, with Ferrari's Michael Schumacher quickly getting it a groove with a lap time of 1m:20.714, to go fastest. Early in the session Sauber's Felipe Mass would go off the circuit with what appeared to be an engine failure. The marshals were required to put out a small fire. This will see him having to lose ten grid positions so he may not qualify his car preferring to start from the rear of the grid. Rubens Barrichello would move up to be second with a time of 1m:20.842. Michael would improve on his time with a 1m:20.029. Toyota's Ricardo Zonta was trying to impress Toyota management, after replacing Cristiano Da Matta, by moving into third with a 1m:20.960. But his position would be taken by Renault's Jarno Trulli as the Italian would move into third with a lap of 1m:20.871. Early pace setter McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen was out and his first lap would see him just over a half a second away from Schumacher's time, a 1m:20.614. BAR's Takuma Sato would quickly take over the third position with a 1m:20.363. With over half the session completed Juan Pablo would move up the order with a time of 1m:20.480. Renault's Fernando Alonso would set an identical time to Sato, a 1m:20.363. But it would be WilliamsF1's Antonio Pizzonia who would set the quickest time, the first in the 1m:19 second bracket, with a time of 1m:19.913. This was a great performance from the Brazilian. But his time at the top would be short as Rubens Barrichello would surpass his time by .145 seconds, a 1m:19.768, to move into first. Button would set the fastest second sector time, but he would finish in fourth with a time of 1m:20.039. With just under ten minutes left in the session Juan Pablo would set the fastest first sector but he would abort his lap. Maybe he was seeing just how fast he can go prior to making his qualifying run. In the closing moments of the session Jenson Button was able to set the quickest lap of the weekend, a 1m:19.558. Michael would move into second with a 1m:19.747.
	Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:19.556 15 2. M. Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:19.747 + 0.191 18 3. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:19.768 + 0.212 10 4. Pizzonia WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:19.913 + 0.357 11 5. Trulli Renault (M) 1:20.130 + 0.574 10 6. Alonso Renault (M) 1:20.363 + 0.807 20 7. Sato BAR-Honda (M) 1:20.363 + 0.807 12 8. Montoya WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:20.480 + 0.924 15 9. Zonta Toyota (M) 1:20.606 + 1.050 18 10. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:20.614 + 1.058 13 11. Panis Toyota (M) 1:20.689 + 1.133 12 12. Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:20.914 + 1.358 13 13. Webber Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:21.112 + 1.556 24 14. Fisichella Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:21.165 + 1.609 12 15. Klien Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:21.390 + 1.834 22 16. Heidfeld Jordan-Ford (B) 1:21.712 + 2.156 14 17. Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:21.989 + 2.433 4 18. Pantano Jordan-Ford (B) 1:23.083 + 3.527 12 19. Bruni Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:23.979 + 4.423 14 20. Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:24.522 + 4.966 13

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