Webber drops down the times final Italian practice

The final practice session for the Italian Grand Prix would see the BMW WilliamsF1 drivers Mark Webber and Antonio Pizzonia finish in seventh and fifteenth. Given the fact that he was thrown into the thick of things it was not surprising that Antonio struggled. But for the team the withdrawal of Nick Heidfeld must have been a difficult thing to cope with as Nick and Mark were looking to be close together in their performances during Friday practice.

The final practice session would get under way and it would take five minutes before we had a car take to the track with McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen coming out. Kimi would quickly get down to things setting a time of 1m:22.411.
Team-mate Montoya, both Jordan's, and Michael Schumacher would also come out. Kimi would improve his time with a 1m:22.064. Coulthard and Trulli were also out. Monteiro was second with a time of 1m:24.911. Karthikeyan moved ahead of his team-mate with a time of 1m:24.787. On his first lap Montoya would move into second with a time of 1m:22.844 but Michael Schumacher would move ahead of Juan Pablo with a 1m:22.613.

Both McLaren's would return to the pitlane. Coulthard and Trulli were in seventh and eighth. Michael would improve with a 1m:22.461 while Fisichella was now in tenth and team-mate Alonso fourth with a time of 1m:23.264. Coulthard would improve to be in fifth, but Trulli and Sato would push him down to seventh. Trulli was in fifth and Sato sixth. Fisichella would move into sixth with a 1m:23.509.

Fisichella was now in fifth and Trulli and Coulthard sixth ad seventh. Button was now in eighth with a 1m:23.800. Klein was now in tenth with a 1m:24.151. Neither of the BMW WilliamsF1 drivers had come out yet. Barrichello was now in tenth with a time of 1m:24.150. With twenty five minutes left in the session the order was Raikkonen from Michael Schumacher, Montoya, Alonso, Fisichella, Button, Trulli, Coulthard, Barrichello, and Sato.

Pizzonia would come out and he would set a time of 1m:23.431 to be in ninth. Team-mate Webber would finally come out and his first lap would see him move into an excellent third, 1m:22.741, showing that his pace over the previous practice sessions is continuing. Alonso was on a very quick lap and would move into the top spot with a time of 1m:21.548, to be 0.516 seconds ahead of Kimi.

With fifteen minutes remaining Kimi would respond to Alonso with an even
quickest time of 1m:20.916 to reverse the situation putting Alonso 0.632 behind the McLaren. Trulli was now in fifth. Now it was Montoya's turn to challenge for the quickest time setting a time of 1m:21.318 to move into second. Mark, Trulli, and Barrichello were in sixth through to seventh positions. Coulthard, Fisichella, and Button made up the top ten.

Barrichello was now able to match his team-mates pace with a 1m:22.437 to move into fifth. Mark and Antonio were now in sixth and ninth places with time of 1m:22.587 and 1m:23.187. Sato would put in a quick lap time, 1m:21.399, to move into third. Mark was now in fifth with a time of 1m:22.066. Trulli would move ahead of Mark with a 1m:21.884. The Ferrari's of Michael and Rubens were down in seventh and eighth.

With five minutes remaining Villeneuve would move into ninth with a time of 1m:22.701. Both WilliamsF1 drivers were back in their pits. The Jordan of Karthikeyan would stop in the second sector brining out the yellow flags. Fisichella was on a quick lap, fastest in the first sector, to finish in sixth with a time of 1m:21.951. He would continue this on his next lap setting a time of 1m:21.469 to move into fourth. Klein was now in eighth.

With the end of the session Mark and Antonio would finish in seventh and fifteenth places. The top ten was Raikkonen from Montoya, Sato, Alonso, Trulli, Fisichella, Webber, Coulthard Klein, and Michael Schumacher.