Montoya fastest in 3rd Italian GP practice


PIzzonia
By Andrew Hooper
September 11 2004

BMW WilliamsF1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya would finish fastest in the third practice session for the Italian GP. He would be backed up by team-mate Antonio Pizzonia who was third fastest. Despite their quick times they did not beat the quickest Friday time.

   
Italian GP Saturday 3rd Practice
 
As the teams prepared for this afternoons qualifying the first Saturday practice session would see BMW WilliamsF1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya set the fastest time, a lap of 1m:21.700. It was also encouraging for the team to see Antonio Pizzonia finish in third.

Pizzonia & MontoyaJust behind Juan Pablo in second was Renault's Fernando Alonso. In fourth was Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello. BAR's Takuma Sato would be in fifth ahead of Michael Schumacher sixth. Fastest driver from Friday's second practice was Kimi Raikkonen. He was in seventh ahead of BAR's Jenson Button.

David Coulthard was ninth fastest, with Felipe Massa beating team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella to tenth position. The second Renault of Jarno Trulli was down in twelfth. Next came Jaguar's Mark Webber ahead of the Toyota pair of Ricardo Zonta and Olivier Panis.

Christian Klien was 16th fastest in his Jaguar ahead of the customer Ford runners of Gianmaria Bruni, Giorgio Pantano and Nick Heidfeld. Heidfeld, who appeared to suffer an engine failure yesterday, is in fact using the same engine after the problem was diagnosed as being an oil leak

Zsolt Baumgartner was way off the pace in the second Minardi, some 1.5 seconds slower than the second slowest runner.
 
Pos Driver Team Time Laps

1. Montoya WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:21.700 6
2. Alonso Renault (M) 1:21.705 9
3. Pizzonia WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:21.723 8
4. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:21.855 9
5. Sato BAR-Honda (M) 1:21.867 7
6. M. Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:21.962 7
7. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:22.018 5
8. Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:22.062 9
9. Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:22.097 6
10. Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:22.284 6
11. Fisichella Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:22.369 5
12. Trulli Renault (M) 1:22.774 9
13. Webber Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:22.784 7
14. Zonta Toyota (M) 1:22.867 9
15. Panis Toyota (M) 1:23.103 9
16. Klien Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:23.332 8
17. Bruni Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:24.411 14
18. Pantano Jordan-Ford (B) 1:24.526 11
19. Heidfeld Jordan-Ford (B) 1:24.669 12
20. Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:26.114 10
 
 
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