Montoya Fastest in Practice 3

Montoya set a time of 1:26.857 to finish 0.174 seconds ahead of Briton Jenson Button, who continued to show promising form in his BAR-Honda, with Championship leader Fernando Alonso third.

Kimi Raikkonen, who recommences his chase of Alonso with a 26-point deficit to overcome in the next six races, finished fourth fastest while Takuma Sato displayed BAR's potential by finishing fifth.

The Williams pair of Nick Heidfeld and Mark Webber finished sixth and seventh respectively while Giancarlo Fisichella, in the second Renault, claimed eighth but was the first to finish outside a second of the top spot.

David Coulthard put a Red Bull in the top ten with the ninth fastest time while Felipe Massa finished tenth and World Champion Michael Schumacher was down in a disappointing 14th place for Ferrari.

Rubens Barrichello also had a difficult time with the World Champion team as he finished in 16th spot while Narain Karthikeyan failed to complete a lap in his Jordan.

Schumacher led the session early on but with ten minutes remaining it was Alonso on top of the timesheets with just nine of the 20 runners having run a full timed lap and both BAR cars not having left the garage at all.

Tiago Monteiro, of Jordan, went off the track at turn four with Christian Klien also running wide at turn eight while Schumacher continued to test the limits of his Ferrari as he went off at turn one.

Pos  Driver        Team                  Time                  Laps
 1.  Montoya       McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:26.857                8
 2.  Button        BAR-Honda         (M)  1:27.031  +    0.174    6
 3.  Alonso        Renault           (M)  1:27.119  +    0.262    8
 4.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:27.134  +    0.277    9
 5.  Sato          BAR-Honda         (M)  1:27.159  +    0.302    8
 6.  Heidfeld      Williams-BMW      (M)  1:27.471  +    0.614    8
 7.  Webber        Williams-BMW      (M)  1:27.633  +    0.776    8
 8.  Fisichella    Renault           (M)  1:27.921  +    1.064    8
 9.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:27.953  +    1.096    9
10.  Massa         Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:28.018  +    1.161    9
11.  R.Schumacher  Toyota            (M)  1:28.049  +    1.192    9
12.  Klien         Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:28.063  +    1.206    9
13.  Trulli        Toyota            (M)  1:28.468  +    1.611    6
14.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:28.487  +    1.630   14
15.  Villeneuve    Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:28.740  +    1.883    8
16.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:28.854  +    1.997   10
17.  Monteiro      Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:30.216  +    3.359   10
18.  Albers        Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:30.837  +    3.980   13
19.  Doornbos      Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:30.851  +    3.994   13
20.  Karthikeyan   Jordan-Toyota     (B)  No Time                  

All timing unofficial