WilliamsF1 6th & 8th in 3rd Canadian practice
Mark in sixth
By Andrew Hooper
June 11 2005
For the BMW WilliamsF1 team the third practice session in Canada wouldsee the divers finish in 6th & 8th. Mark Webber would lead home team-mate Nick Heidfeld in what was an encouraging session for the team in the leadup to qualifying.
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For the BMW
WilliamsF1 team was encouraging as both Mark Webber and Nick Heidfeld were
able to show signs that they weer now in the pace of their main rivals
Renault, McLaren, and BAR. Mark Webber would finish the session in sixth
while Nick Heidfeld was in eighth.
The
start of the third practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix would see
Friesacher and Monteiro take to the track for their installation lap. They
would be
joined by both Raikkonen and Montoya, as well as the other Minardi and
Jordan cars of Albers and Karthikeyan.
The first driver to set a time would be Monteiro with a slow time of
1m:21.341.
Friesacher would beat this time with a 1m:21.201. Also coming out were both
of the Renault drivers, Alonso and Fisichella. They were joined by BAR's
Takuma Sato and Toyotas Ralf Schumacher. Alonso would easily beat the time
of Friesacher with a time of 1m:17.897. Just as quickly Fernando's time
would be beaten by team-mate Fisichella with a time of 1m:17.589. Sato was
now in third with a time of 1m:18.410.
With fifteen minutes of the session remaining Ralf would move into fifth
with a time of 1m:19.737. Karthikeyan was in fourth with a 1m:19.648. Ralf
would improve to now be in fourth with a 1m:18.417. Both of the Ferrari's
had now completed their installation lap. Raikkonen was now in second with a
time of 1m:17.83. These times were considerably slower than those set on
Friday.
Barrichello and Michael Schumacher were down in ninth and tenth. Rubens
would improve to be in seventh. At the front Kimi would go fastest with a
time of 1m:17.500. Finally both of the BMW WilliamsF1 cars would take to the
track. Rubens was now in sixth with a time of 1m:18.546. Mark Webber's first
lap was a 1m:22.153 which saw him last, some 4.6 seconds off the pace.
Michael Schumacher had moved into third with a lap time of 1m:17.852, but
Toyota's Jarno Trulli would take this place with a time of 1m:17.798. Nick
Heidfeld was now in seventh with a time of 1m:18.010. Mark had improved his
time to now be a 1m:18.862. It was all happening in the closing minutes with
Alonso now fastest and Trulli second. But Nick would go faster than Trulli
to now be in second with a time of 1m:17.278. Alonso would improve his time
with a 1m:16.961.
Button was now second while Mark had been able to move up to fifth with a
time of 1m:17.441. At the front nick and Alonso would trade places with Nick
going fastest with a time of 1m:16.569 only to see Fernando go quicker with
a time of 1m:16.062. Mark was now in third with a 1m:16.588.
The Red bull's of Klein and Coulthard were in eleventh and fourteenth.
Button would again go second fastest with a time of 1m:16.386, while Alonso
had improved his time to drop into the 1m:15 second with a 1m:15.837.
Montoya was now in fifth with Fisichella sixth. Mark would go ahead of
team-mate Heidfeld going third fastest with a time of 1m:16.463. Alonso
would go quicker again with a time of 1m:15.582. But his rival Raikkonen
would move into second with a time of 1m:15.826.
Sauber's Felipe Massa was in ninth, with team-mate Villeneuve twelfth. Mark
and Nick were now in fifth and sixth. Sato and Montoya were in seventh and
eighth. in the final minutes Fisichella was now in second, Raikkonen third,
and Sato and Button were in fourth and fifth. Mark was in sixth with Michael
Schumacher seventh and Nick eighth. The final two places in the top ten went
to Montoya and Massa.
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Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alonso Renault (M) 1:15.582 13
2. Fisichella Renault (M) 1:15.758 8
3. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:15.826 9
4. Sato BAR-Honda (M) 1:16.109 10
5. Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:16.386 5
6. Webber WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:16.463 9
7. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:16.538 9
8. Heidfeld WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:16.569 8
9. Montoya McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:16.749 8
10. Massa Sauber-Petronas (M) 1:16.816 5
11. R.Schumacher Toyota (M) 1:16.999 9
12. Trulli Toyota (M) 1:17.441 5
13. Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas (M) 1:17.469 6
14. Klien Red Bull-Cosworth (M) 1:17.595 9
15. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:17.908 10
16. Coulthard Red Bull-Cosworth (M) 1:17.992 9
17. Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota (B) 1:18.338 11
18. Monteiro Jordan-Toyota (B) 1:18.710 15
19. Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:21.031 14
20. Albers Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:21.882 7 |
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