Rosberg sixth fastest in second Canadian Practice


Rosberg Visors

By Andrew Hooper
June 9 2007

AT&T Williams driver Nico Rosberg would finish sixth fastest in the second Friday Practice for the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix. Team-mate Alex Wurz wuld finish in a disappointing seventeenth position. Even Nico's performance would only come after running on the super-soft Bridgestone tyre, allowing him to set a quick time late in the session. Fastest in the sesssion was Alonso.

 Canadian GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

After the opening Friday practice session for the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix the AT&T Williams team would find their drivers, Alex Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima, in fifteenth and seventeenth positions. For the second Friday practice session Nico Rosberg would replace Kazuki. Fastest in the opening practice was Alonso followed by Lewis Hamilton.

RosbergFor the team this session would see Alex have an early off-track moment while Mark Webber would set the early pace. For Toyota's Jarno Trulli his session would end with suspension failure. With thirty minutes of the session run Alonso would move to the top of the times followed by Hamilton, then Webber and Raikkonen.

Neither of the Williams drivers wee showing much pace early in the session. Kovalainen would retire from the session with suspension damage after hitting the wall at Turn eight. Liuzzi was fifth fastest.

Several drivers were out using the super soft tyres, including Alonso who would improve his fastest time to be a second ahead of Hamilton. Heidfeld was now third fastest. Nico was down in ninth but was out on the super soft tyres. Nico was able to move up to be seventh with thirty minutes of the session remaining. Nico would pit, but after a quick adjustment was back out and would improve to be fourth fastest.

Massa was in fifth while Raikkonen was in eighth. Heidfeld would brush the wall forcing him to return to the pits. He was still third fastest. Trulli was able to return to the circuit along with team-mate Ralf. But for the Italian he would suffer a second failure of the right front suspension. Ralf would be forced to pit. Trulli would storm out of the Toyota pit appearing to be quite angry with the failures.

WurzMassa would move into second with just minutes left in the session. Raikkonen was fourth followed by Heidfeld. Nico was in sixth. There would be a moment with the Torro Rosso of Speed running into the rear of Webber's Red Bull. Alex would finish the session in a disappointing seventeenth. Questions must be asked as to the future prospects of Alex with the team given that Nico has out performed him consistently since the start of the season.

 
Pos  Driver        Team                      Time     Laps
 1.  Alonso        McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:16.550  37
 2.  Massa         Ferrari              (B)  1:17.090  34
 3.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:17.307  36
 4.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              (B)  1:17.515  37
 5.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           (B)  1:17.827  42
 6.  Rosberg       AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:17.992  25
 7.  Barrichello   Honda                (B)  1:18.108  38
 8.  Fisichella    Renault              (B)  1:18.130  40
 9.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:18.181  40
10.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda    (B)  1:18.309  38
11.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:18.316  40
12.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           (B)  1:18.399  29
13.  Button        Honda                (B)  1:18.474  36
14.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:18.493  33
15.  Davidson      Super Aguri-Honda    (B)  1:18.545  35
16.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:18.602  37
17.  Wurz          AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:18.871  25
18.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:18.895  16
19.  R.Schumacher  Toyota               (B)  1:19.331  16
20.  Albers        Spyker-Ferrari       (B)  1:19.453  38
21.  Sutil         Spyker-Ferrari       (B)  1:19.662  25
22.  Kovalainen    Renault              (B)  1:20.519  13
 

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