Benetton: could do better

Neither Giancarlo Fisichella nor Alex Wurz managed to get a clean lap in the last-minute scramble to get a quick lap in on the rapidly drying track at the end of the session.

Fisichella, who had starred in the morning by taking sixth position despite missing over half the session with engine problems, salvaged a respectable 12th place, but Wurz will start from a disastrous 20th position.

'We missed a great opportunity on a circuit where we have tested extremely competitively under all conditions,' admitted technical director Pat Symonds. 'I guess that's the luck of the game.'

'I have been happy with the car all weekend and as the track got drier we adapted our set-up and I felt we were really competitive,' said Fisichella. 'But a combination of mistakes and traffic meant we didn't manage to fulfil our potential.'

'The only laps that counted were the last ones and on my last one I got a yellow flag,' Wurz explained.