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Briton Jenson Button finished fastest ahead of World Champion Michael Schumacher in the final practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday, after setting his time in the dying seconds.

Briton Jenson Button finished fastest ahead of World Champion Michael Schumacher in the final practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday, after setting his time in the dying seconds.

BAR-Honda driver Button set a time of 1:19.556 to finish 0.191 seconds ahead of World Champion Michael Schumacher, who also set his time right at the end of the session in his Ferrari.

German Schumacher pushed his Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello down to third with Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia, of Williams, the only other man to break through the one minute and 20 seconds barrier.

Italian Jarno Trulli continued to put in strong times for Renault as he claimed fifth fastest time ahead of Japanese BAR-Honda driver Takuma Sato in sixth and his own Spanish teammate Fernando Alonso in seventh.

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya finished eighth in the second Williams while compatriot Ricardo Zonta, making his race debut for Toyota this weekend, claimed ninth and Finn Kimi Raikkonen closed out the top ten in his McLaren-Mercedes.

Brazilian Felipe Massa came to a halt at turn three 26 minutes into the session with a smoking Sauber but Italian Giorgio Pantano was the only other driver to experience an incident when he went off briefly at turn 11.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:19.556 15 2. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:19.747 + 0.191 18 3. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:19.768 + 0.212 10 4. Pizzonia Williams-BMW (M) 1:19.913 + 0.357 11 5. Trulli Renault (M) 1:20.130 + 0.574 10 6. Alonso Renault (M) 1:20.363 + 0.807 20 7. Sato BAR-Honda (M) 1:20.363 + 0.807 12 8. Montoya Williams-BMW (M) 1:20.480 + 0.924 15 9. Zonta Toyota (M) 1:20.606 + 1.050 18 10. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:20.614 + 1.058 13 11. Panis Toyota (M) 1:20.689 + 1.133 12 12. Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:20.914 + 1.358 13 13. Webber Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:21.112 + 1.556 24 14. Fisichella Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:21.165 + 1.609 12 15. Klien Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:21.390 + 1.834 22 16. Heidfeld Jordan-Ford (B) 1:21.712 + 2.156 14 17. Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:21.989 + 2.433 4 18. Pantano Jordan-Ford (B) 1:23.083 + 3.527 12 19. Bruni Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:23.979 + 4.423 14 20. Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:24.522 + 4.966 13 All timing unofficial

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