Saturday Second Free Practice

World Champion Michael Schumacher continued his dominant form in Saturday's second practice session at Imola as he finished ahead of Jenson Button once again.

Ferrari driver Schumacher continued his impressive speed from the first session to set a lap time of 1:20.125 around the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit despite running only seven laps.

BAR-Honda's Button produced a quick lap late in the session to get within 0.025 seconds of the World Champion, but the rest of the grid remained a distance away from Schumacher's time.

Renault driver Fernando Alonso ended third in the times but was 0.719 seconds adrift, while McLaren's David Coulthard, Williams-BMW's Juan Pablo Montoya and Rubens Barrichello were the only others to be within one second of Schumacher.

Takuma Sato was seventh quickest for BAR-Honda with Renault's Jarno Trulli McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen and Cristiano da Matta, of Toyota, completing the top-ten.

Jordan's Giorgio Pantano pulled off the side of the track at turn eight mid-way through the session after encountering problems and could only complete seven laps.

Coulthard spun at turn 12 - Variante Alta - but was able to continue, while Ralf Schumacher was also caught out at the same chicane, and Zsolt Baumgartner ploughed his Minardi into the barriers at turn 11, minutes from the end of the session.

Jaguar driver Christian Klien took to the track late on after the team worked on his car following the Austrian's accident in the opening session, but he could only go 16th quickest.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:20.125 7 2. Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:20.150 + 0.025 15 3. Alonso Renault (M) 1:20.844 + 0.719 13 4. Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:20.844 + 0.719 10 5. Montoya Williams-BMW (M) 1:20.975 + 0.850 7 6. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:20.996 + 0.871 10 7. Sato BAR-Honda (M) 1:21.159 + 1.034 14 8. Trulli Renault (M) 1:21.198 + 1.073 12 9. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:21.199 + 1.074 14 10. da Matta Toyota (M) 1:21.257 + 1.132 13 11. R.Schumacher Williams-BMW (M) 1:21.271 + 1.146 10 12. Panis Toyota (M) 1:21.296 + 1.171 12 13. Webber Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:21.393 + 1.268 16 14. Fisichella Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:22.022 + 1.897 10 15. Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:22.077 + 1.952 8 16. Klien Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:23.222 + 3.097 8 17. Heidfeld Jordan-Ford (B) 1:23.551 + 3.426 13 18. Pantano Jordan-Ford (B) 1:24.736 + 4.611 7 19. Bruni Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:26.199 + 6.074 10 20. Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:27.451 + 7.326 13 All timing unofficial