WilliamsF1 outside top ten after Friday practice


Mark Webber

By Andrew Hooper
August 19 2005

Both BMW WilliamsF1 drivers would finish outside the top ten after Friday practice for the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix. Mark Webber was in eleventh and Nick Heidfeld was down in ninteenth.

 
Turkish GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

With the session started it would be Minardi's Christian Albers leading out
McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa and Red Bull's Vitantonio Liuzzi out onto the
circuit. They would be joined by Toyota's Ricardo Zonta and Jordan's Narian Karthikeyan. De la Rosa would start proceedings with a time of 1m:30.759, followed by Zonta and Karthikeyan.

WebberKimi Raikkonen would also take to the circuit and would quickly move into first with a time of 1m:29.659. Both Sauber's would also be out and Massa would move into third with a time of 1m:31.146 ahead of team-mate Villeneuve. Joining Raikkonen at the front would be Juan Pablo Montoya who would set a time of 1m:29.001 to go fastest. We would have a McLaren 1-2-3.

de la Rosa would move into first with a time of 1m:28.842. In the previous session Pedro suffered from a gearbox problem that cut short his track time. He would improve his time with a 1m:27.941. Red Bull's Christian Klein would have an off-track moment but was able to continue. At the front Zonta, and the Renault's of Alonso and Fisichella would push Raikkonen down to sixth. Zonta was now in second with a 1m:28.196.

As for the BMW WilliamsF1 team Mark Webber was able to move into sixth with a time of 1m:29.483. Zonta would go fastest with a time of 1m:27.194. Sauber's Felipe Massa was now in seventh. Button was now in fifth with a 1m:28.362. Raikkonen would move back up the order with a 1m:28.210, which would see him in fourth. Mark was now down in eleventh while Nick was still finding the going difficult been back in fourteenth. Kimi would improve his time with a 1m:27.969 to be just behind team-mate Montoya.

Alonso and Button were in fifth and sixth. Brothers Ralf and Michael were in seventh and eighth. The final two places in the top ten were Fisichella and Massa. The Red Bull's of Klein and Coulthard were in thirteenth and sixteenth. Juan Pablo would improve his time with a 1m:27.414. Robert Doornbos and Nicolas Kiesa were yet to set a time.

With just under thirty five minutes remaining Juan Pablo would go fastest with the first lap in the 1m:26 second bracket, a 1m:26.525. Zonta in second was now 0.669 seconds behind. Fisichella was now in seventh with a 1m:28.573. sato was in twelfth with a 1m:29.582. Both BMW WilliamsF1 drivers were suffering with top speeds not even making the top five. Fisichella was now in fifth with a 1m:28.167. de la Rosa was in third but had improved his time with a lap of 1m:27.703.

With twenty five minutes remaining Mark and Nick were in twelfth and sixteenth. Zonta would remain in second but improve his time with a 1m:27.159, but was still 0.634 seconds behind Montoya. Kimi was on a quick lap been fastest in the first sector. He would finish with a time of 1m:27.274 to move into third. Zonta had lowered his time with a 1m:27.037. Sato was now in eleventh with a
1m:28.833. Mark and Nick were now in fourteenth and seventeenth.

Webberde la Rosa would move into second close to Juan Pablo's time with a lap of 1m:26.824 to now just be 0.299 seconds behind. He would improve this with a 1m:26.628. Barrichello was just ahead of Nick in seventeenth. The Renault's Fisichella and Alonso were in fifth and sixth. With fifteen minutes remaining Luizzi was now in eighth. Button was now in fifth with a 1m:27.916. Nick would improve his time slightly to be in fifteenth with a 1m:28.959, 2.434 seconds slower than Montoya. Mark was in seventeenth.

Trulli was now in eighth with a 1m:28.419 with just over eight minutes remaining. The Sauber's Of Massa and Villeneuve were in twelfth and seventeenth. Mark had improved to now be in fourteenth with a 1m:28.689. But Mark would move into the top six with a 1m:28.120 to be sixth. Coulthard was now in eighth, while Nick was in eighteenth.

With five minutes remaining the top ten was Montoya, de la Rosa, Zonta, Raikkonen, Button, Webber, Fisichella, Coulthard, Trulli, and Alonso. With the final minutes counting down it would be Zonta who would go fastest with a time of 1m:26.259. Sato would push Mark down one place when he moved into sixth with a time of 1m:28.081. At the front de la Rosa would go fastest with a time of 1m:26.196, while Trulli was now in sixth.

Alonso would move into fifth but was quickly beaten by Button. Liuzzi would split the BAR and Renault when he moved into sixth with a time of 1m:2578. On his last lap Zonta would snatch away the fastest time with a 1m:25.583 to be 0.613 ahead of de la Rosa. With the end of the session Mark and Nick would finish in eleventh and nineteenth places. The top ten would be Zonta, de la Rosa, Montoya, Raikkonen, Button, Liuzzi, Alonso, Fisichella, Trulli and Sato.

 
Pos  Driver        Team                   Time     Laps
 1.  Zonta         Toyota            (M)  1:25.583 32
 2.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:26.196 33
 3.  Montoya       McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:26.525 17
 4.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:27.274 18
 5.  Button        BAR-Honda         (M)  1:27.346 28
 6.  Liuzzi        Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:27.578 28
 7.  Alonso        Renault           (M)  1:27.579 25
 8.  Fisichella    Renault           (M)  1:27.673 29
 9.  Trulli        Toyota            (M)  1:27.964 22
10.  Sato          BAR-Honda         (M)  1:28.081 25
11.  Webber        WilliamsF1-BMW    (M)  1:28.120 20
12.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:28.235 25
13.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:28.293 25
14.  Villeneuve    Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:28.404 26
15.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:28.460 25
16.  R.Schumacher  Toyota            (M)  1:28.641 22
17.  Massa         Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:28.681 27
18.  Klien         Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:28.828 21
19.  Heidfeld      WilliamsF1-BMW    (M)  1:28.959 21
20.  Monteiro      Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:30.626 21
21.  Doornbos      Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:30.628 16
22.  Albers        Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:30.730 22
23.  Kiesa         Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:30.884 18
24.  Karthikeyan   Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:30.899 12
25.  Toccacelo     Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:32.813 19
 
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