Heidfeld 3rd in second Spainish Friday Practice


Again third
By Andrew Hooper
May 7 2005

With Mark Webber not ruuing Nick Heidfeld was again third in second Friday practice for the Spainish Grand Prix. Nick was making the most of the fact that he will change his engine for Saturday. The session was marred by a major accident by Montoya late in the session.

 
Spanish GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

With McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa fastest in the first Friday practice and BMW
WilliamsF1's Nick Heidfeld third the teams would start the second practice. Again Mark Webber would not be taking to the track due to the issue with the teams BMW engines. Mark will be back on Saturday.

Heidfeld Red Bull's Christian Klien would be first out followed by Jordan's Robert Doornbos. Klein would pit but Doornbos would continue. Joining them were de la Rosa and Zonta. Both drivers would get down to setting times quickly with de la Rosa setting a time of 1m:18.645, while Zonta would go fastest with a time of 1m:17.518.

As other drivers took to the track McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull's David Coulthard would move into second and third respectively. Sauber's Felipe Massa would move up to fifth, a time of 1m:19.335, while team-mate Villeneuve was in sixth place with a time of time of 1m:19.753.

For Minardi's Albers he again would have problems with his car stopping out on the circuit. Renault's Fernando Alonso would take to the track for the first time.
Team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella was now in fourth with his first fast lap been a
1m:18.251. On his first lap Alonso would move into this place with a 1m:18.227. With fifteen minutes of the session run Zonta would set another quick time with a
1m:16.220, while Alonso would improve to be in third with a 1m:17.974.

Ferrari's Michael Schumacher would set his first lap with a 1m:18.486 to be in
eighth. Coulthard moved into fourth with a 1m:18.166. The only driver yet to set a
time was Montoya. de la Rosa was now in fifth while Coulthard would set a very quick time to be in second with a time of 1m:16.797. Montoya would finally leave his pit.

Webber sits out Friday practiceToyota's Jarno Trulli was now in seventh, with a lap of 1m:17.888. Montoya's first lap would see him in sixth, a time of 1m:17.703. Michael Schumacher was still down the order in eleventh. Raikkonen would set a second place time of 1m:16.586. Alonso and Fisichella were in fourth and fifth position. Ralf would split the Renaults with a time of 1m:17.584. So after twenty minutes the top ten was Zonta, Raikkonen, Coulthard, Alonso, R. Schumacher, Fisichella, Montoya, de la Rosa, Trulli and Massa.

Trulli would jump up the times to be in fourth with a time of 1m:17.123. Fisichella would also improve his time, a 1m:17.200, to now be in fifth place. Michael was now down in twelfth. Montoya would slightly improve his time, a 1m:17.555, but not his position. Nick was now in third with the fastest second sector time. He would improve his time to now be in second with a lap of 1m:16.527.

But de la Rosa would set a blistering time of 1:15.062 to be fastest over a full second faster than Zonta. But in the final minutes of the session Montoya would have a major accident at Turn nine completely destroying the rear of his McLaren. So with the end of the session the top ten was de la Rosa, Zonta, Heidfeld, Raikkonen, Trulli, Coulthard, Fisichella, R. Schumacher, Alonso and Montoya.

 
Pos  Driver        Team                  Time      Laps
 1.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:15.062  28
 2.  Zonta         Toyota            (M)  1:16.220  34
 3.  Heidfeld      Williams-BMW      (M)  1:16.527  30
 4.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:16.586  17
 5.  Trulli        Toyota            (M)  1:16.653  26
 6.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:16.797  24
 7.  Fisichella    Renault           (M)  1:17.200  24
 8.  R.Schumacher  Toyota            (M)  1:17.264  22
 9.  Alonso        Renault           (M)  1:17.356  24
10.  Montoya       McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:17.555  10
11.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:17.702  22
12.  Massa         Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:17.931  24
13.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:18.042  22
14.  Villeneuve    Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:18.336  27
15.  Liuzzi        Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:18.444  26
16.  Klien         Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:18.802  23
17.  Karthikeyan   Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:18.858  24
18.  Doornbos      Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:19.125  28
19.  Monteiro      Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:19.140  27
20.  Albers        Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:19.581  17
21.  Friesacher    Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:20.686  23
22.  Webber        Williams-BMW      (M)  No Time
 
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