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For the
WilliamsF1 team Friday practice would see Nico Rosberg crash in the first
session of the day seeing him get in virtually no running on the day. Mark
Webber would finish in seventh while Friday driver Alex Wurz would put in a
considerable number of laps as the team worked through their setup and tyre
options. Now it was Saturday practice and for Nico the session would be
vital.
With the start of the session Monteiro was first out onto the track. He
would be joined by the Super Aguri's of Yamamoto and Sato. The second MF1 of
Albers would also take to the track after having to have an engine change.
The first driver to set a time was Yamamoto with a 1m:27.120. Both of the
MF1's would pit. Sato would set the quickest time with a 1m:22.630. Monteiro
would return to the track, while Sato would lower his time with a 1m:20.767. His next lap
would see him improve with a 1m:20.276 while Monteiro went second with a
1m:21.203. Albers was back out while Sato's time was now a 1m:20.201. Trulli
would also take to the track with ten minutes of the session run. Monteiro
had lowered his time with a 1m:20.442.
Sato would pit as Monteiro went fastest with a 1m:20.038. Albers was now
fastest with a 1m:19.726. Ralf Schumacher would join his Toyota team-mate
out on the track. But Trulli would stop out on the track with a mechanical
problem with smoke coming from his car. Barrichello left the pit lane.
Albers had lowered his time with a 1m:19.254 but this was beaten by Ralf
with a 1m:18.631. Speed and Villeneuve had come out. They were joined by Nico who would have to make
up for lost time on Friday. Ralf would improve his time with a 1m:18.180.
Now we had De la Rosa and Liuzzi come out for this installation laps. They
were joined by Raikkonen. Ralf's time was now a 1m:18.070 while Rubens had
moved into fifth, 1m:20.493.
Heidfeld and Klien were now on the track. Barrichello would move into second
while Nico was now in third, 1m:19.165. De la Rosa was fifth, 1m:19.445.
Speed would move ahead of Nico with a 1m:19.017. But on his next lap Nico
would go fastest with a 1m:17.628. Heidfeld was now fifth while Coulthard
left the pits. Now Mark would take to the track as Nico went fastest in the
second sector. Liuzzi was now in fifth and Villeneuve sixth. De la Rosa and Raikkonen were in
tenth and eleventh. Coulthard would jump up into fourth, 1m:18.153. Mark was
in fifth with a 1m:18.203. Coulthard's next lap was a 1m:18.028 which would
see him second. Nico had pitted.
Michael Schumacher and Button were now out on the track. Klien was now in
sixth as team-mate Coulthard lowered his time with a 1m:17.917. Michael's
first lap would see him in sixth. Mark had made it a WilliamsF1 one-two
moving into second with a 1m:17.741. Massa had now come out leaving just the
Renault's to make an appearance. Michael was now in second, 1m:17.631,
pushing Mark into third. Mark had returned to his pit after having spun his car. Michael would
go fastest with a 1m:17.466 while team-mate Massa would move into the top
spot with a 1m:17.150.
Now both of the Renault's had left the pit lane while Button moved into
sixth. Massa was on another quick lap finishing with a 1m:16.503. Alonso was
now in eighth. and Fisichella fifteenth. Button's next lap would see him in
fourth splitting the WilliamsF1 drivers. Massa would lower his time with a
1m:16.220. Alonso would improve to now be in sixth, 1m:17.783. Michael had
pitted leaving only a handful of cars running with just over twenty five minutes remaining in the
session. Alonso was now second while Massa had lowered his time by a few
tenths, 1m:16.208. Ralf was now in third and Fisichella seventh. Nico was
now in fifth and Mark eighth.
Fisichella was now in fifth while Massa improved his time again with a
1m:16.012. The order was now Massa followed by Alonso, Ralf, Fisichella,
Michael, Nico, Button, mark, Barrichello, and Speed making up the top ten.
But Rubens would improve to now be in third while Heidfeld, on new tyres,
put in a very quick lap to move into the 1m:16 seconds with a 1m:16.167 to
now be in second. Nico had come back out and his first lap would see him in
third with a 1m:17.114. Mark had also returned to the track currently been
in eleventh. Nico would improve with a 1m:17.006. Mark was able to improve
with a 1m:17.347 to now be in sixth.
Raikkonen had also come out and was now in ninth. Team-mate de la Rosa was
also out on the track but was down in twentieth. Nico would pit as Raikkonen
moved into third, 1m:16.218. De la Rosa would also improve to now be fourth,
1m:16.322. Nico was in fifth and Mark eighth. Kimi would pit followed
by de la Rosa. With sixteen minutes left in the session Coulthard would put
in a quick time to move into second, 1m:16.104. Mark would lower his time
with a 1m:16.914 to now be in sixth one place ahead of Nico. Coulthard had
lowered his time with a 1m:16.080.
Mark would pit while Speed moved into eighth. Alonso was down in ninth and
Michael thirteenth, but it looked like both drivers were using older rubber.
Liuzzi was now sixth with ten minutes left in the session. Massa had
returned to the track while the majority of drivers were in their garages
getting ready for their practice qualifying runs. There were just three
drivers running. Nico would come back out with Mark and Nico in eighth and ninth. Only Massa, Nico, and
Klien were on the track with seven minutes left. Nico had not improved his
time as de la Rosa came out. The first of the practice qualifying runs would
see Klien move into the top spot with a 1m:15.661. Massa would pit as
Villeneuve came back out with under five minutes remaining.
Now there was a rush of drivers taking to the track including Mark. Klien
had improved with a 1m:15.628 and he would pit. There were just five drivers
not out on the track as the final minutes counted down. Nico and Mark were
in ninth and tenth. The next to improve would be Button who was now in
second, 1m:15.651. Fisichella improved to be in sixth. The second Honda of
Barrichello was now in third. Both Nico and Mark were in the 1m:16 seconds but had now
dropped to be thirteenth and fourteenth. Yamamoto was to crash his car while
Michael improved to be in ninth. But had it not been for the yellow flags
for Yamamoto's crash Michael would have gone fastest.
With the end of the session it would be Klien fastest from Button,
Barrichello, Massa, Coulthard, Fisichella, Heidfeld, Raikkonen, Michael, de
la Rosa, Alonso, Liuzzi, Speed, Nico, and Mark. |