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The start of the
second Friday practice at Monza would see Davidson come out with a new
engine after his engine failure in the earlier session. He would be joined
by Yamamoto. Neel Jani, Franck Montagny, Robert Doornbos and Alex would also
take to the track. Fisichella would also come out for
his first run while Davidson would set the first time of the session
1m:27.635. Giorgio Mondini, Sebastian Vettel and Takuma Sato were also out
on the track as Fisichella pitted after his installation lap.
Alex
would go fastest with a 1m:26.873 but Davidson would move ahead of the
WilliamsF1 driver with a 1m:26.409. Vettel's first lap would see him move
ahead of the Honda with a 1m:26.279, but Davidson would improve to again
move to the top of the times with a 1m:25.605. Alonso was out on his
installation lap. Slowest at this time was Robert Doornbos with a 1m:28.264.
Alex was now in third followed by Yamamoto and Sato. Alonso would pit.
Yamamoto would run wide at the Lesmo corner leaving the track. He would
continue but he would pit.
Alex would improve his time with a 1m:26.082 to move into second. Both
Davidson and Alex would improve their times with a 1m:25.356 and 1m:25.884
respectively. They were still first and second. Alex's next lap would see a
1m:25.266 to go fastest. Ralf Schumacher had left the pit lane as Davidson
would again suffer an engine failure at della Roggia. This was the second of
the 2007 engines to fail. Alex would pit as Vettel set a new fastest first
sector time. Ralf was in tenth with a 1m:28.365. Vettel would improve his
time, 1m:25.400, but remained third.
On his next lap Ralf would move into fourth with a 1m:25.935. Montagny was
now in fifth. Vettel would again improve with a 1m:25.008 to go fastest.
Both Torro Rosso cars would leave their garage's with Speed leading Liuzzi.
Alex would come back out as Liuzzi went ninth fastest with a 1m:27.281.
Speed was slowest. The first of the McLaren's would come out, that of de la
Rosa. Jani was now in sixth, 1m:26.162. Liuzzi and Speed were now in seventh
and ninth. Trulli was now out on the track as de la Rosa went fastest,
1m:24.642, to lead Vettel and Alex. He would improve with a 1m:24.216. Both
Nick Heidfeld and Michael Schumacher would leave the pit lane with thirty
five minutes left in the
session. They were joined by Coulthard.
Alex
would spin his car at the second chicane but was able to keep going. De la
Rosa and Vettel both pitted. Trulli was now in fifth, 1m:25.438. Klien would
join team-mate Coulthard out on the track. On his first lap Michael would go
fastest with a 1m:23.703. He was 0.5 seconds ahead of de la Rosa. Both
Monteiro and Albers had come out. They were joined by the second Ferrari of
Massa. Michael would improve his time with a 1m:23.138. He was now 1.078
seconds ahead of the second placed McLaren. Raikkonen and Nico had now also
joined the action.
Heidfeld was now in third, 1m:24.330. Team-mate Vettel was now in fourth
followed by Alex. Massa's first lap would see him set a time of 1m:23.308 as
Michael returned to his pit. Raikkonen was now in fifth, 1m:24.954. Mark had
now come out for his first run in the session. Massa would improve with a
1m:23.182 as Nico set a time of 1m:25.215 to move into eighth. Alex was now
ninth. Alonso and Fisichella were also out on the track and Alonso would
move into sixth just behind Kimi. Fisichella was in twelfth. With twenty
three minutes left the order was Michael, Massa, de la Rosa, Heidfeld,
Raikkonen, Vettel, Alonso, Nico Alex, and Davidson making up the top ten.
Nico was still running as Mark moved into thirteenth with a 1m:25.572. After
Davidson's engine failure neither of the other Honda's had come out. Kubica
had also yet to come out. Nico would pit as Mark improve his time with a
1m:25.500. Alex would go back out and would move into third with a
1m:23.842. Both of the Ferrari's were out on the track. Nico was now in
ninth and Mark fourteenth. Both had returned to their pits. Michael would pit but Massa continued.
Massa's time was now a 1m:23.182 to be just 0.044 behind Michael.
Alex was back out with ten minutes left in the session. Trulli was now in
tenth pushing Nico down to eleventh. Massa would pit leaving just Alex,
Vettel, and Trulli the only runners from the top ten. Vettel was on a quick
lap as Alex returned to his pit. Raikkonen was back out with seven minutes
left in the session. Kubica would come out for the first time in the
session. Vettel would go fastest with a 1m:22.631 as Nico returned to the
track. De la Rosa was also out as we had a rush of drivers all coming out
for their final runs. This included Alonso, Klien, Mark, Coulthard. Mark was
now in seventeenth as Raikkonen improved to be in sixth ahead of Heidfeld.
Both of the Ferrari's had come out as Kubica was now in ninth. Vettel and
Alex would come back out with just minutes remaining. Nico was in twelfth
and he would finish his session as Vettel was on another quick lap as the
session came to an end. e would finish with a time of 1m:22.631 to be over
0.5 seconds faster than Michael. Mark was now down in twentieth and Nico
thirteenth. The top ten was Vettel from Michael, Massa, Alex, de la Rosa,
Raikkonen, Heidfeld, Alonso, Kubica, and Montagny. |