Jerez Day 4
By Karl King
December 11 2005
Jacques Villeneuve was the surprise pace setter of the day in Jerez on Saturday. The BMW Sauber set the fastest lap time by quite a margin powered by his BMW V8 engine.
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![]() Zonta finished the day third, with a lap time of 1'19.805 |
Pedro de la Rosa was second with a limited V10 Mercedes engine. The TF106's of Ricardo Zonta and Jarno Trulli were third and fourth respectively.
The session was stopped once when Marc Gene pulled to the side in his Ferrari 2004 car, fitted with a V8 engine. He finished with a lap time just behind Alex Wurz, both completed 111 laps.
Midland reserved the bottom four times of the day, with almost 6 seconds separating Villeneuve and trailing Fabrizio Del Monte. 2006 driver Christijan Albers was 9th surrounded by some drivers you have probably never heard of. MF1 only managed to accumulate 140 laps of the circuit despite having 4 men on track.
The four Bridgestone teams will be testing around an artificially soaked track tomorrow. Toyota, Williams, MF1 and Ferrari will have an opportunity to testing Bridgestone's wet weather tyres.
1
J. Villeneuve
Sauber
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01:18.782
101
2
P. de la Rosa
McLaren
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01:19.533
94
3
R. Zonta
Toyota
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01:19.805
60
4
J. Trulli
Toyota
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01:19.870
77
5
A. Wurz
McLaren
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01:20.219
111
6
M. Gené
Ferrari
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01:20.246
111
7
M Winkelhock
Midland F1
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01:20.856
52
8
R. Rusinov
Midland F1
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01:21.990
29
9
C. Albers
Midland F1
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01:22.683
25
10
F. Del Monte
Midland F1
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01:24.350
27

