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.





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 Michelin 01:18.782 101
2 P. de la Rosa McLaren Michelin 01:19.533 94
3 R. Zonta Toyota Bridgestone 01:19.805 60
4 J. Trulli Toyota Bridgestone 01:19.870 77
5 A. Wurz McLaren Michelin 01:20.219 111
6 M. Gené Ferrari Bridgestone 01:20.246 111
7 M Winkelhock Midland F1 Bridgestone 01:20.856 52
8 R. Rusinov Midland F1 Bridgestone 01:21.990 29
9 C. Albers Midland F1 Bridgestone 01:22.683 25
10 F. Del Monte Midland F1 Bridgestone 01:24.350 27

Bookmark or share this story with: