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Saturday Second Free Practice - Hungarian GP

Ralf Schumacher beat his brother Michael to the fastest time in Saturday morning's second practice session ahead of qualifying for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Ralf Schumacher beat his brother Michael to the fastest time in Saturday morning's second practice session ahead of qualifying for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Williams driver Schumacher, who aims to get himself back in the World Championship battle this weekend, set a time of 1:21.939 in his FW25 to finish 0.374 seconds ahead of his Ferrari-driving brother.

Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, in the second Ferrari, and Juan Pablo Montoya, Schumacher's closest title contender in the second Williams-BMW, finished third and fourth respectively to ensure their two teams had a top-four lock-out.

Australian Mark Webber, in the Jaguar, was the best of the rest but he was nine tenths of a second behind session leader Schumacher and four tenths behind Montoya.

Finn Kimi Raikkonen, of McLaren-Mercedes, finished sixth fastest but suffered an engine failure at the end of the session. Renault pair Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli had been setting the pace earlier in the weekend but dropped to seventh and eighth.

Scot David Coulthard finished ninth and just beat Toyota driver Olivier Panis, of France, into tenth place. Giancarlo Fisichella finished 16th after being allowed out once checks to his rear wing were completed following teammate Ralph Firman's earlier crash.

Da Matta spun off harmlessly into the gravel trap at turn nine during the session and eventually dropped down to 17th place in the times ahead of the two Minardis with Firman still absent from the session and in a local hospital for a check-up.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. R.Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:21.939 192.612 km/h 18 2. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:22.313 + 0.374 16 3. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:22.467 + 0.528 12 4. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:22.494 + 0.555 13 5. Webber Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:22.848 + 0.909 23 6. Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:22.876 + 0.937 14 7. Alonso Renault (M) 1:22.902 + 0.963 18 8. Trulli Renault (M) 1:23.074 + 1.135 13 9. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:23.293 + 1.354 13 10. Panis Toyota (M) 1:23.789 + 1.850 17 11. Button BAR Honda (B) 1:23.805 + 1.866 22 12. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:23.838 + 1.899 22 13. Wilson Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:23.853 + 1.914 22 14. Frentzen Sauber Petronas (B) 1:24.006 + 2.067 19 15. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:24.154 + 2.215 25 16. Fisichella Jordan Ford (B) 1:24.343 + 2.404 14 17. da Matta Toyota (M) 1:24.401 + 2.462 13 18. Verstappen Minardi Cosworth (B) 1:26.498 + 4.559 15 19. Kiesa Minardi Cosworth (B) 1:27.295 + 5.356 13 All Timing Unofficial

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