Free practice 4: Raikkonen best of rest

The Finn and his McLaren team-mate David Coulthard both went quicker in the second 45 minute session ahead of this afternoon's qualifying for the European Grand Prix. Neither Ferrari driver nor the Williams-BMWs managed to find more speed.

That left Raikkonen on a 1m31.176s, a time still half a second away from Schumacher's best in the dominant Ferrari. Coulthard moved up from ninth to fifth with his improvement, but that became seventh by the end of the session as Nick Heidfeld pushed his Sauber up to fourth, one place ahead of Ralf Schumacher. Then Mika Salo managed a respectable sixth in his Toyota.

There were few incidents over the course of the session. Juan Pablo Montoya, who was only eighth quickest this morning, looked frustrated with how things were going, waving a fist at a slow Minardi that held him up through the new stadium section.

A number of drivers ran wide on the new piece of track, one being Felipe Massa who repeated his mistake from the earlier session. Jenson Button was another to do it, the Briton also running off into the gravel at the hairpin. He managed to keep his Renault moving and ended up 10th, just behind his team-mate Jarno Trulli.

Pedro de la Rosa's difficult day got worse. Having only completed a handful of laps in the first session of the morning, he was forced to abandon his smokey Jaguar at the side of the track this time. That left him rock-bottom of the time sheets.