WilliamsF1 7th & 10th after 1st Saturday practice
Nick in 7th
By Andrew Hooper
May 21 2005
The BMW WilliamsF1 7th & 10th after the opening Saturday practice for the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix. At one stage Nick was as high as second with Mark in fourth but both drivers would be pushed down the times as the session continued.
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Monaco GP Saturday 1st
Practice |
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For the BMW
WilliamsF1 team both Nick and Mark would have a practice session that would
see them near the top in the early stages but they would drop down the order
to finish with Nick in seventh and Mark tenth.
Things would
return to the normal schedule with the teams starting the first of their two
Saturday practice sessions. After Thursday practice it would be Renault's
Fernando Alonso on top of the times. Wurz and Coulthard were second and
third. With the start of the session the two Minardi's of Patrick Friesacher
and Christijan Albers were first out on the track. They would be joined by
the Jordan and McLaren drivers.
The
first driver to set a time would be Tonio Liuzzi with a time of 1m:24.705 in
his
Star Wars sponsored Red Bull RB1. He would lower his time with a 1m:21.486.
Albers would set a time of 1m:25.033 with team-mate Friesacher setting a
1m:25.841.
Toyota's Ralf Schumacher would head out, with Ralf having to deal with a
penalty after the wrong left front tyre was put on his car on Thursday. He
was hit with a
half-second qualifying penalty. Michael Schumacher was also out. Ralf would
move into second with a 1m:22.795 but Kimi Raikkonen would move into this
spot with a time of 1m:21.787.
Kimi would improve to go fastest with a time of 1m:19.620. Montoya was in
second with a 1m:20.138. But Ralf and Michael would move into second and
third with times of 1m:19.669 and 1m:19.896. Kimi would again improve to go
fastest with a time of 1m:18.958. But both Juan Pablo and Ralf would beat
this time. Juan Pablo would go fastest with a time of 1m:18.415 while Ralf's
time was a 1m:18.716.
Both WilliamsF1 drivers were out and Nick Heidfeld would move into fourth
with a time of 1m:19.038. Mark Webber was back in eighth with a 1m:20.646.
But Mark would improve to go fourth fastest with a 1m:18.590. Nick would
take this spot with a time of 1m:18.149. A big improvement from the BMW
WilliamsF1 drivers. Mark would improve with a 1m:18.065 only to be beaten
again by Nick who set a time of 1m:18.048. Nick and Mark were still in third
and fourth.
At the front it was Montoya from team-mate Raikkonen. Coulthard was in firth
and Rubens sixth with a time of 1m:18.371. Alonso was down in twelfth but he
would improve to move into ninth with a 1m:19.667. Team-mate Fisichella was
one place ahead. But it would be Coulthard who would push the McLaren's off
the top spot setting a time of 1m:17.180 to go fastest.
His place at the top was short lived as Alonso would set a time 0.2 seconds
faster, a 1m:16.951 to go fastest. Nick and Mark were now in fifth and
sixth, one second off the Renault's pace. Michael was down in tenth, nearly
three seconds slower than Alonso. The Toyota's Of Ralf and Trulli were in
eighth and thirteenth.
So with ten minutes remaining it would be Alonso on top with Coulthard
second, Montoya third. Luizzi would move into ninth with a time of
1m:18.819. he would improve to be eighth. So would Ralf with a time of
1m:17.634 to go fourth fastest. He would lower this time with a 1m:17.520 to
be in third. Brother Michael was now in eighth.
With the session coming to a close their would be the usual flurry of
activity. Fisichella was now in fifth with a time of 1m:17.628. But with the
fastest second sector time Giancarlo would go fastest with a time of
1m:16.706 to give us the two Renault's on top. For Nick Heidfeld he would
set the fastest third sector time on his way to second fastest with a time
of 1m:16.935. But Kimi would take that spot with a time of 1m:16.875. Mark
was down in ninth.
The top spot would again change as Ralf Schumacher would go fastest with a
time of 1m:16.508. Things were changing very rapidly. But Ralf's time at the
top was brief as Fisichella ten Montoya would go fastest. Juan Pablo set a
time of 1m:16.197. Michael Schumacher was now in fifth and Kimi sixth.
Alonso was in fourth as the session came to a close. In the closing minutes
Heidfeld was to brush the barriers at St Devote, seeing him return to his
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Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Montoya McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:16.197 16
2. Fisichella Renault (M) 1:16.403 12
3. R.Schumacher Toyota (M) 1:16.508 16
4. Alonso Renault (M) 1:16.513 12
5. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:16.803 14
6. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:16.875 15
7. Heidfeld WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:16.935 12
8. Coulthard Red Bull-Cosworth (M) 1:17.180 13
9. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:17.475 12
10. Webber WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:18.065 8
11. Trulli Toyota (M) 1:18.215 12
12. Liuzzi Red Bull-Cosworth (M) 1:18.259 15
13. Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas (M) 1:18.640 9
14. Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:19.271 13
15. Monteiro Jordan-Toyota (B) 1:20.215 15
16. Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota (B) 1:20.348 18
17. Albers Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:21.563 18
18. Massa Sauber-Petronas (M) No Time |
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