JULY 23, 2005

Practice 3, 4 Report - McLaren in the driving seat

The McLaren-Mercedes team continued its domination of practice for the German Grand Prix with Kimi Raikkonen setting the fastest time of the morning sessions on Saturday, with a lap of 1m14.128s. Juan Pablo Montoya, his McLaren team mate was three-tenths of a second slower and there was then a huge six-tenths gap back to Fernando Alonso, who was shadowed by Giancarlo Fisichella. Jenson Button was fith fastest for BAR-Honda, just ahead of Mark Webber's Williams-BMW, Michael Schumacher's Ferrari and Nick Heidfeld's Williams. The top 10 was completed by Christian Klien in his Red Bull and Jarno Trulli's Toyota.

The big disappointment of the morning was the pace of Rubens Barrichello who ended the session 16th.