Michael is top on trap speeds in sectors 2 and 3. He needs to work on sector 1 to beat the Honda. I guess Cosworth are scared about their engines this weekend...
Session over - wow - this is how it used to be years ago - excitement, changes right at the end of time.... can you believe Villeneuve? Way to go Massa and Michael!!! and the crowd goes wild ...... See you guys in a couple hours between commercials on Speed. Carol
"If you go on board with Ide, you can be pretty sure it's not for anything good." I truly do love listening to Matchet and Hobbs. Mark
Hope we see more action in this practice since it's on tv! Lots of off's in P1 - Ide is off to a great start in P2. Wonder if Webber will go out this time around or if he's preserving that engine? Carol
He would have had P1 if it wasn't for S3 - hope he takes it from Alonso. Mark - the practice champs are falling down the ladder! Yipee - rain forecasted for qualifying!!! Carol
Oh my - from out of no where comes Button to P1. Still no Webber or Rosberg. Carol <18 minutes and Webber & Rosberg appear.
Practice 1 times: Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 36 Anthony Davidson Honda 1:28.259 2 37 Robert Doornbos RBR-Ferrari 1:28.559 3 17 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-BMW 1:28.595 4 3 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.713 5 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:29.025 6 5 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:29.041 7 7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:29.411 8 35 Alexander Wurz Williams-Cosworth 1:29.461 9 38 Robert Kubica Sauber-BMW 1:29.576 10 15 Christian Klien RBR-Ferrari 1:29.601 11 14 David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari 1:29.676 12 21 Scott Speed STR-Cosworth 1:31.017 13 19 Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:31.039 14 18 Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:31.812 15 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:34.036 16 23 Yuji Ide Super Aguri-Honda 1:36.684 17 39 Markus Winkelhock MF1-Toyota 1:36.859 18 40 Neel Jani STR-Cosworth 1:40.818 19 1 Fernando Alonso Renault 20 2 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 21 8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 22 4 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 23 16 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-BMW 24 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 25 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Cosworth 26 9 Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 27 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 28 12 Jenson Button Honda Practice 2 times: Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 36 Anthony Davidson Honda 1:26.822 2 35 Alexander Wurz Williams-Cosworth 1:26.832 3 38 Robert Kubica Sauber-BMW 1:27.200 4 12 Jenson Button Honda 1:27.213 5 1 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:27.443 6 5 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:27.658 7 3 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.773 8 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:28.075 9 4 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.200 10 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:28.227 11 2 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:28.280 12 17 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-BMW 1:28.440 13 14 David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari 1:28.531 14 9 Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 1:28.860 15 16 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-BMW 1:29.053 16 8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:29.138 17 21 Scott Speed STR-Cosworth 1:29.196 18 7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:29.379 19 18 Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:29.713 20 37 Robert Doornbos RBR-Ferrari 1:29.876 21 15 Christian Klien RBR-Ferrari 1:29.879 22 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 1:29.933 23 40 Neel Jani STR-Cosworth 1:30.686 24 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Cosworth 1:30.734 25 19 Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:30.830 26 39 Markus Winkelhock MF1-Toyota 1:31.260 27 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:32.556 28 23 Yuji Ide Super Aguri-Honda 1:34.224 Source: www.formula1.com
Toyota is still in the doldrums ... Mike Gascoigne better deliver - he is paid an astronomical sum - $8 MM p.a. The Williams times are poor only because of very limited running. The commentators were mentioning that the Ferraris are slightly detuned as they were not able to figure out what caused one the cylinder pistons to fail in Sepang. It was a random failure - different cylinders failed for DC, MS and FM. Klien and Heidfeld barely put 9-10 laps. Heidfeld has a new engine this race but they still havent figured out. Its sad to see very few cars running decent number of laps because of reliability concerns. It was good to see Schumacher, Raikonnen and Alonso put on fast laps from the get-go. Looks like it will be rain tomorrow - should be fun - the track is very slippy as it is and the rain is gonna make it worse
Seems like a driver's placement in practice times has little to do with the final result of qualifying.
I certainly agree with you Sam. The turn where everyone kept going off will be interesting at the start of the race too - Varsha referred to it as "Calamity Corner". So much for thoughts of Michael being "washed-up" - once Ferrari gets their new aero package and other changes in place - Imola is going to be a great race. We'll see what today's practice and qualifying has in store. Carol
yes , its free on www.formula1.com, all you have to do is sign up once and you can get free live timing for practice, qualy and race.
Well, coverage of day two starts now! Looking forward to seeing the F3s. Hopefully their race will be better than last years!
Both Ferraris out in the first three minutes of practice. Really humid there - showing 67% - call was for possible wet qualifying. Three weeks later into the fall than in the past years appears to make a bit of a different. This may be a good thing. Ide has the best lap time of 2:17.638 and Trulli just jumped to P1. Carol Anyone else watching the computer screen now??
