Wurz fastest in second Friday Brazilian practice


Alex Wurz

By Andrew Hooper
October 20 2006

WilliamsF1 driver Alex Wurz would be fastest in the second Friday practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix. This would be Alex's last time as a Friday driver for the WilliamsF1 team. Mark and Nico would finish the session down in nineteenth and twenty third.

 
Brazilian GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

With Kimi Raikkonen fastest in the first Friday practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix, followed by Anthony Davidson and WilliamsF1's Alex Wurz the second session would get underway. Sebastian Vettel would lead out Ammermuller, Davidson and Alex out onto the track. Neel Jani would also leave the pit lane, joined by Viso. With five minutes of the session run Davidson was fastest, 1m:14.396, from Vettel and Alex. Alex's time was a 1m:16.151. After four laps Alex would pit. In fourth was Jani followed by Ammermuller, Viso, and Sato.

WurzBoth Speed and Yamamoto would leave the pit lane. Jani would pit while Speed moved into eighth with a 1m:17.526. Both of the Toyota's would take to the track with Trulli leading Ralf out of the pit lane. With ten minutes of the session completed Speed would move into sixth, 1m:16.756, as Alex returned to the track. He would be joined by Vettel as Trulli moved into second, 1m:15.578. Davidson was now also back out while Ralf went sixth fastest, 1m:16.316. Both Monteiro and Albers would come out while Speed moved into fifth, 1m:16.167. This would be sixth as Ralf moved into third with a 1m:15.889. But Alex would move ahead of the Toyota driver and into second with a 1m:14.527. Trulli would pit while Vettel moved into fourth, 1m:15.466. Monteiro would spin his Spyker but was able to continue.

Vettel would move ahead of Alex, 1m:14.424, and into second. Ralf would join Trulli in the pits. On his next lap Vettel would move to the top of the times, 1m:14.330. Nico Rosberg would make his first appearance of the day. Mark Webber would follow him out onto the track. With forty three minutes remaining Vettel lead from Davidson, Alex, Trulli,, Ralf, Speed, Albers, and in eighth Jani. Liuzzi, Coulthard, and de la Rosa would take to the track. Nico's first lap was a 1m:17.002 which would see him in fourteenth but Mark would set a time of 1m:16.624 which would see him in sixth. Nico would move into seventh with a 1m:16.043.

Mark's next lap would see him improve to be in fourth, 1m:14.839. Nico was now in eighth. De la Rosa was ahead of Mark and now in fourth. Mark would rop one place to be fifth. Alex was still in third. Doornbos and Michael Schumacher were also out on the track. De la Rosa would continue McLaren's good showing by going fastest, 1m:14.235. Both Mark and Nico had pitted leaving Alex to continue to put in laps. Massa and Fisichella were next to take to the track. Michael's first lap would see him immediately move to the top of the times with a 1m:14.161. Alonso ad Barrichello had also left the pit lane. Alex was now in fifth, and mark sixth and Nico tenth. On their first laps Fisichella and Massa would move into seventh and eighth. Michael would spin but was able to continue and on his ext lap would set a time of 1m:13.850. Davidson would move into second with a 1m:13.989.

Frank WilliamsAlonso was now in fifth, 1m:14.453. Michael would pit while Fisichella would improve to now be third, 1m:14.053. Kubica had taken to the track. Alex was now in seventh and mark ninth and Nico thirteenth. With thirty minutes left in the session the order was Michael from Davidson, Fisichella, de la Rosa, Alonso, Vettel, Alex, Ralf, Mark, and Massa making up the top ten. But both Alonso and Vettel would improve. Alonso would move into second, 1m:13.855, while Vettel was in third. Alonso was just 0.005 behind Michael's time. Alonso and Massa would pit. Vettel would move ahead of Michael with a time of 1m:13.655. Kubica would spin at Turn nine, while team-mate Nick Heidfeld took to the track. He was joined by Button leaving just Raikkonen to come out. Alex was in seventh, 1m:14.527, while Mark was now in eleventh and Nico seventeenth. Both Alex and Nico were back out on the track.

Alex would improve one place to now be in sixth, 1m:14.101. Raikkonen had now left the pit lane. Nico would improve to now be in twelfth, 1m:15.124. But Button would move ahead of the German and into tenth. Mark and Nico were now in twelfth and thirteenth. Michael would leave his pit while on his first lap Kimi would move into eighth, 1m:14.526. Nico had pitted while Mark was back out on the track. Button was in seventh. Vettel would pit with just under twenty minutes left in the session. Alonso was also back out on the track. Alex had lowered his time with a 1m:14.095. Raikkonen had pitted.

After failing to improve Michael would pit while Doornbos would stop his Red Bull on the side of the track in sector three. Vettel was back out joined by Fisichella. Mark would pit. He was currently in thirteenth and Nico fifteenth. Alex was still in sixth behind Fisichella. Massa was in eleventh followed by Ralf and Trulli. Vettel would improve with a 1m:13.393, to be 0.457 ahead of Michael. Alonso was in third followed by Davidson. Alex had pitted while Nico was back out on the track and looking to improve from his eighteenth. Barrichello was in fourteenth, 1m:14.829. Vettel would pit leaving just two of the top ten out on the track with just under nine minutes remaining.

Davidson was on a quick lap, fastest sector one. Montagny was in an amazing fourth while Ralf would move into second, 1m:13.765. Davidson would complete his lap moving to the top of the times, 1m:13.136. Michael was back out joined by Nico. With five minutes left the order was Davidson from Vettel, Ralf, Michael, Alonso, Montagny, Trulli, Fisichella, and Alex in tenth. Button would jump up the order to now be in third, 1m:13.603. Alonso had left the pit lane for his final run. Mark was also out on the track. Nico was down in twenty second. Both Davidson and Vettel, courtesy of new rubber, would set time in the 1m:12's. Davidson a time of 1m:12.653 and Vettel a 1m:12.870. But joining them would be Alex who would go fastest with a time of 1m:12.547.

All top three drivers would pit while Trulli was in fourth followed by Button, Michael, Ralf, Montagny, Raikkonen, Alonso, de la Rosa, and in twelfth Fisichella. The session would end with Alex fastest but Mark was down in nineteenth and Nico twenty third. For Alex this would be the last time that he would have the role of a Friday driver as in 2007 he will take up his role as race driver for the WilliamsF1 team.

 
Pos  Driver        Team                     Time     Laps
 1.  Wurz          WilliamsF1-Cosworth (B)  1:12.547  33
 2.  Davidson      Honda               (M)  1:12.653  37
 3.  Vettel        BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:12.870  33
 4.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:13.483  21
 5.  Button        Honda               (M)  1:13.485  13
 6.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari             (B)  1:13.713  15
 7.  R.Schumacher  Toyota              (B)  1:13.765  22
 8.  Montagny      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:13.792  20
 9.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:13.803  8
10.  Alonso        Renault             (M)  1:13.820  16
11.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:13.926  16
12.  Fisichella    Renault             (M)  1:14.053  17
13.  Barrichello   Honda               (M)  1:14.434  17
14.  Ammermuller   Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:14.436  31
15.  Monteiro      Spyker MF1-Toyota   (B)  1:14.468  18
16.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:14.510  15
17.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:14.561  15
18.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:14.793  13
19.  Webber        WilliamsF1-Cosworth (B)  1:14.839  15
20.  Viso          Spyker MF1-Toyota   (B)  1:14.972  26
21.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:15.023  27
22.  Albers        Spyker MF1-Toyota   (B)  1:15.086  21
23.  Rosberg       WilliamsF1-Cosworth (B)  1:15.124  14
24.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:15.214  21
25.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:15.737  22
26.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:15.855  28
27.  Jani          Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:15.868  22
28.  Doornbos      Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:16.251  8
29.  Yamamoto      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:18.321  9
 

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