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With the session
started it would be Minardi's Christian Albers leading out
McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa and Red Bull's Vitantonio Liuzzi out onto the
circuit. They would be joined by Toyota's Ricardo Zonta and Jordan's Narian
Karthikeyan. De la Rosa would start proceedings with a time of 1m:30.759,
followed by Zonta and Karthikeyan.
Kimi Raikkonen would also take to the circuit and would quickly move into
first with a time of 1m:29.659. Both Sauber's would also be out and Massa would
move into third with a time of 1m:31.146 ahead of team-mate Villeneuve.
Joining Raikkonen at the front would be Juan Pablo Montoya who would set a time of
1m:29.001 to go fastest. We would have a McLaren 1-2-3.
de la Rosa would move into first with a time of 1m:28.842. In the previous
session Pedro suffered from a gearbox problem that cut short his track time.
He would improve his time with a 1m:27.941. Red Bull's Christian Klein would
have an off-track moment but was able to continue. At the front Zonta, and the
Renault's of Alonso and Fisichella would push Raikkonen down to sixth. Zonta
was now in second with a 1m:28.196.
As for the BMW WilliamsF1 team Mark Webber was able to move into sixth with
a time of 1m:29.483. Zonta would go fastest with a time of 1m:27.194.
Sauber's Felipe Massa was now in seventh. Button was now in fifth with a 1m:28.362.
Raikkonen would move back up the order with a 1m:28.210, which would see him
in fourth. Mark was now down in eleventh while Nick was still finding the
going difficult been back in fourteenth. Kimi would improve his time with a
1m:27.969 to be just behind team-mate Montoya.
Alonso and Button were in fifth and sixth. Brothers Ralf and Michael were in
seventh and eighth. The final two places in the top ten were Fisichella and
Massa. The Red Bull's of Klein and Coulthard were in thirteenth and
sixteenth. Juan Pablo would improve his time with a 1m:27.414. Robert Doornbos and
Nicolas Kiesa were yet to set a time.
With just under thirty five minutes remaining Juan Pablo would go fastest
with the first lap in the 1m:26 second bracket, a 1m:26.525. Zonta in second was
now 0.669 seconds behind. Fisichella was now in seventh with a 1m:28.573. sato
was in twelfth with a 1m:29.582. Both BMW WilliamsF1 drivers were suffering
with top speeds not even making the top five. Fisichella was now in fifth
with a 1m:28.167. de la Rosa was in third but had improved his time with a lap of
1m:27.703.
With twenty five minutes remaining Mark and Nick were in twelfth and
sixteenth. Zonta would remain in second but improve his time with a 1m:27.159, but was
still 0.634 seconds behind Montoya. Kimi was on a quick lap been fastest in
the first sector. He would finish with a time of 1m:27.274 to move into third.
Zonta had lowered his time with a 1m:27.037. Sato was now in eleventh with a
1m:28.833. Mark and Nick were now in fourteenth and seventeenth.
de la Rosa would move into second close to Juan Pablo's time with a lap of
1m:26.824 to now just be 0.299 seconds behind. He would improve this with a
1m:26.628. Barrichello was just ahead of Nick in seventeenth. The Renault's
Fisichella and Alonso were in fifth and sixth. With fifteen minutes
remaining Luizzi was now in eighth. Button was now in fifth with a 1m:27.916. Nick
would improve his time slightly to be in fifteenth with a 1m:28.959, 2.434 seconds
slower than Montoya. Mark was in seventeenth.
Trulli was now in eighth with a 1m:28.419 with just over eight minutes
remaining. The Sauber's Of Massa and Villeneuve were in twelfth and
seventeenth. Mark had improved to now be in fourteenth with a 1m:28.689. But
Mark would move into the top six with a 1m:28.120 to be sixth. Coulthard was
now in eighth, while Nick was in eighteenth.
With five minutes remaining the top ten was Montoya, de la Rosa, Zonta,
Raikkonen, Button, Webber, Fisichella, Coulthard, Trulli, and Alonso. With
the final minutes counting down it would be Zonta who would go fastest with a
time of 1m:26.259. Sato would push Mark down one place when he moved into sixth
with a time of 1m:28.081. At the front de la Rosa would go fastest with a
time of 1m:26.196, while Trulli was now in sixth.
Alonso would move into fifth but was quickly beaten by Button. Liuzzi would
split the BAR and Renault when he moved into sixth with a time of 1m:2578.
On his last lap Zonta would snatch away the fastest time with a 1m:25.583 to be
0.613 ahead of de la Rosa. With the end of the session Mark and Nick would
finish in eleventh and nineteenth places. The top ten would be Zonta, de la
Rosa, Montoya, Raikkonen, Button, Liuzzi, Alonso, Fisichella, Trulli and Sato. |