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The start of the
second Friday practice session would see Giorgio Mondini, Yamamoto, Vettel
and Alex Wurz leave the pit lane. Rookie Vettel was fined 1000 dollars for
speeding in the pit lane in the earlier session. Jani and Davidson would
also come out. Mondini would set the first time, 1`m:32.556 followed by Alex
with a 1m:35.776. Vettel and Yamamoto would move into second and
third. Davidson would have an engine change after the failure of his
original unit in the opening practice session.
Jani would move into fourth but it would be Davidson who would go fastest
with a time of 1m:30.819. Jani was now in third, 1m:32.553, pushing Alex
down to fifth. Vettel would pit. Ralf Schumacher would take to the track,
joined by Montagny. Davidson would improve his time with a 1m:30.665. With
ten minutes of the session run Doornbos would come out. Montagny would spin
his car at turn nine. Jarno Trulli would also come out. We would finally get
to see one of the WilliamsF1 race drivers as Nico headed out.
Trulli would
spin at Turn thirteen on his first timed lap. Doornbos was now third
fastest. Massa would head out as Vettel moved to the top of the times.
Trulli was now fourth and Massa would go fastest ahead of Vettel and
Davidson.
Michael Schumacher would come out joined by Alonso and Fisichella. Mark
would take to the track for the first time. Michael would go fastest on his
his first timed lap. Both Button and Barrichello were out on the track as
Scott Speed moved into third. But Button would move into second and Alonso
third. Both Michael and Massa would pit. Fisichella's first lap would see
him sixth.
Button would improve but remained second behind Michael. Button
and Alonso would pit as Pedro de la Rosa took to the track. He was joined by
team-mate Raikkonen. On his first lap Pedro would go fastest with a
1m:29.112. Raikkonen was in fourth with a 1m:29.596. Mark was down in
fifteenth, 1m:30.775, and Nico twenty first. Alonso was in fifth ahead of
Massa.
Both Mark and Nico continued to circulate around the track with eighteen
minutes remaining. Nico would improve to now be in seventeenth, 1m:31.015.
Mark was one place ahead of the German. Barrichello would move up the order
to now be in fifth with a 1m:29.597. Nico had pitted. Ralf Schumacher would
go fastest, 1m:28.614, ahead of Doornbos. But Vettel would move ahead of the
pair with a time of 1m:28.091.
Davidson was on a quick lap and would move
into second with a 1m:28.598. Mark and Nico were both back in their pits and
were down the order in twentieth and twenty first respectively. Michael
would come back out and was able to improve to now be in fourth with a
1m:28.844.
With four minutes left in the session both McLaren's were back out as Massa
moved into second with a time of 1m:28.164. The order was Vettel, Massa,
Davidson, Ralf, Michael, Doornbos, and de la Rosa. Kimi would improve to
move ahead of his team-mate with a time of 1m:29.042. Mark and Nico were
both back out on the track, joining Alex. Alex was currently in eighteenth.
With the final minute left only four drivers were not out on the track.
Button would improve six places and move into fourth with a 1m:28.599.
With the end of the session Mark and Nico were down in twenty first and
twenty third. Vettel remained fastest from Massa, Button, Davidson, Ralf,
Michael, Doornbos, Raikkonen, de la Rosa, and Barrichello making up the top
ten. The fastest of the WilliamsF1 drivers was Alex but he was 2.4 seconds
slower than the fastest time in the session. |