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Raikkonen Fastest in Practice 4 - Hungary

Kimi Raikkonen finished ahead of teammate Juan Pablo Montoya as McLaren dominated the final Saturday morning practice ahead of qualifying for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix

Raikkonen, who will be on track early in qualifying because of his retirement from the last race in Germany, finished with a time of 1:20.203, the fastest of the weekend so far, to put him 0.314 seconds ahead of Montoya.

World Champion Michael Schumacher, who won his 12th Grand Prix of the season here last year, came closest to the McLarens with a time 0.570 seconds back in third as temperatures rose to 33 degrees in the strong sunshine.

Schumacher's brother Ralf, in the lead Toyota, finished fourth fastest as he split the two Ferrari cars with Rubens Barrichello an encouraging fifth fastest for the World Champion team.

Giancarlo Fisichella was the fastest Renault on track but finished just more than one second slower than the lead McLaren, which ran without its West livery, as the two prepare to go head to head for the constructors' title.

Fisichella's teammate Fernando Alonso, who became the youngest ever Grand Prix winner here two years ago, could only manage the eighth fastest time behind seventh-placed Jenson Button, of BAR-Honda.

Button's teammate Takuma Sato finished ninth fastest and Mark Webber completed the top ten as he finished just ahead of teammate Nick Heidfeld as Williams had an encouraging session.

Tiago Monteiro went off track after 15 minutes of the session when he made a mistake at turn two then Trulli parked at the side of the track to end his session when his Toyota failed.

Raikkonen and Montoya traded times at the top while and with 15 minutes to go Raikkonen was ahead with a lead of one second on closest non-McLaren rival Barrichello as Christijan Albers went off track at turn 13.

Pos  Driver        Team                  Time                  Laps
 1.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:20.203               11
 2.  Montoya       McLaren-Mercedes  (M)  1:20.517  +    0.314   14
 3.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:20.773  +    0.570   17
 4.  R.Schumacher  Toyota            (M)  1:20.903  +    0.700   13
 5.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:21.266  +    1.063    7
 6.  Fisichella    Renault           (M)  1:21.276  +    1.073   14
 7.  Button        BAR-Honda         (M)  1:21.301  +    1.098   15
 8.  Alonso        Renault           (M)  1:21.336  +    1.133   12
 9.  Sato          BAR-Honda         (M)  1:21.880  +    1.677   17
10.  Webber        Williams-BMW      (M)  1:21.889  +    1.686    9
11.  Heidfeld      Williams-BMW      (M)  1:21.918  +    1.715    9
12.  Klien         Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:22.340  +    2.137   13
13.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Cosworth (M)  1:22.534  +    2.331   14
14.  Trulli        Toyota            (M)  1:22.699  +    2.496    6
15.  Massa         Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:22.753  +    2.550   11
16.  Albers        Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:22.979  +    2.776   11
17.  Villeneuve    Sauber-Petronas   (M)  1:22.985  +    2.782   14
18.  Doornbos      Minardi-Cosworth  (B)  1:23.358  +    3.155    8
19.  Karthikeyan   Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:24.265  +    4.062   14
20.  Monteiro      Jordan-Toyota     (B)  1:24.628  +    4.425   17

All timing unofficial

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