WilliamsF1 fail to impress in 2nd Imola practice

In a session that would see both Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg come out quite late in the session Nico and Mark would finish in seventeenth and nineteenth respectively. Friday driver Alex Wurz could only manage eighth.

It would be Anthony Davidson who would set the early quickest times but with fifteen minutes of the second practice session at Imola completed the McLaren's of Raikkonen and Montoya were on top of the times with Kimi setting a time of 1m:26.782. Alex Wurz was third with a 1m:27.433. But Massa would split the two McLaren's moving into second with a time of 1m:26.913. Trulli and Barrichello were in sixth and seventh.

Michael was now third with a time of 1m:26.933. Neither Mark Webber or Nico Rosberg had taken to the circuit. Michael would move into the top spot with a time of 1m:25.470. Fisichella was now in fifth with a 1m:27.292. The Renault of Alonso was in seventeenth. Neither of the race drivers for BMW Sauber or Red Bull had taken to the circuit. But Alonso would quickly move to the top of the times with a time of 1m:26.583 that would see him second. Still we were waiting to see Mark or Nico come out for their first laps with thirty minutes of the session remaining. Alex was now down in eighth. Now both of the Red Bull's of Coulthard and Klien had come out. They were joined by Jacques Villeneuve. Davidson was now in seventh with a time of 1m:27.125.

BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica would move into sixth with a time of 1m:26.973. Montoya was now down in seventh with a time of 1m:27.065. In a turn around from his previous form Barrichello would move into third with a time of 1m:26.653. But he was still 1.1 seconds behind the quickest time of Michael Schumacher. Montoya would put in a quick lap to move into second with a 1m:26.334, while Davidson was now in fourth. Alex would come back out and would improve his times to finish in second with a 1m:26.328. Button and Ralf Schumacher finally came out with twenty five minutes remaining. But both Mark and Nico were still in their garages, possibly waiting on any last minute setup information from Alex.

Alonso would move ahead of Davidson and was now in fourth. Button's firs lap would see him in fifteenth. Alonso's next lap would see him in second with a 1m:25.732. On his next lap Button was now in fifth with a 1m:26.569. Massa was in sixth ahead of Davidson and Barrichello. Nico would finally come out and with fifteen minutes of the session remaining he would have completed just four laps and set a time of 1m:28.178 to be eighteenth fastest.

At the top of the times Davidson was now in second with a time of 1m:25.699. Kubica was in fourth. Nico would improve with a 1m:27.481 to be fifteenth. Ten minutes remaining and Mark had still yet to turn a wheel. Trulli was now in fifth with a 1m:26.029. With just over five minutes remaining Mark Webber would finally come out. Nico was back in his garage. There was a flood of drivers out on the circuit in the closing minutes. Heidfeld was now in eighth with a 1M;26.387. Mark's first lap would see him in twenty second with a time of 1m:27.767.

Nico was back out joining both Mark and Alex. Alonso was now in second with a 1m:25.474 to be just 0.004 behind Michael. Kubica would move ahead of Michael but he was passed by Alonso who would set a time of 1m:25.043. Mark was now in nineteenth with a 1m:27.157. Nico was in seventeenth as the session came to a close. Michael was able to sneak past Kubica to move into second with a 1m:25.371. Davidson was in fourth followed by Massa, Trulli, Wurz, Montoya, Heidfeld, and Fisichella. Fisichella was able to move into sixth with a 1m:25.991.

With the end of the session Alex had completed thirty one laps compared with the six and ten of Mark and Nico. The team certainly seems to be wanting to avoid putting any extra miles on the engines of their race drivers.