Schumacher was
well clear of team-mate Rubens Barrichello too. The Brazilian was
second fastest, but 1.359s slower than his German colleague.
Williams' Ralf
Schumacher was the best of the rest, 2.166s slower than his brother,
with BAR twins Anthony Davidson and Jenson Button next up, both
within 0.198s of Schumacher Junior.
Juan Pablo Montoya
was sixth quickest in the second Williams, 2.712s off the top time,
with Jarno Trulli close behind in the top Renault.
Both Montoya
and Trulli completed 11 laps - a ball-park total for the race drivers
as third drivers did much of the work for the teams that have them.
The next man on the timesheet, Kimi Raikkonen only did four laps
though while his team-mate David Coulthard only brought the total
for the pair up to 12.
DC was 11th
quickest, split from Kimi by Renault's Fernando Alonso and Toyota
tester Ricardo Zonta, who was 0.629s quicker than the first of his
team-mates Olivier Panis.
Mark Webber
was the top Jaguar driver in 12th slot, 3.333s off the top time
and closely followed by the two Saubers - Giancarlo Fisichella just
ahead of Felipe Massa this time.Panis was next up in 15th slot,
ahead of Takuma Sato in the third BAR, Jaguar tester Bjorn Wirdheim
and Cristiano da Matta in the third Toyota.
Nick Heidfeld
was the best of the Jordan drivers with the 19th fastest time. His
team-mate Giorgio Pantano was next up, just over two tenths of a
second slower and ahead of Jaguar's Christian Klien.
Next up, in
22nd place was Jordan third driver Timo Glock, who provided most
of the drama in the session. The German survived one lurid spin,
before having a proper shunt at Acque Minerali with just over 10
minutes of the session left to run. Glock was unhurt, but he'd knocked
the rear wing off and the left front and rear corners off the car.
Jordan, incidentally,
is displaying large pictures of the late Ayrton Senna's head on
each side of its cars' engine covers.
Propping
up the list of times were the three Minardis. Gianmaria Bruni was
23rd best, well over a second clear of Zsolt Baumgartner and Bas
Leinders.