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Sunday Warm Up - Italian GP

Williams-BMW and Ferrari dominated Sunday morning's warm-up for the Italian Grand Prix, but it was the 'number twos' of Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello who claimed the fastest times.

Williams-BMW and Ferrari dominated Sunday morning's warm-up for the Italian Grand Prix, but it was the 'number twos' of Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello who claimed the fastest times.

The pair will start the Monza race behind front row pairing Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya and World Champion Michael Schumacher, but the two pairings ended up in opposite positions in the pre-race practice.

German Ralf Schumacher claimed the top spot for Williams-BMW with a time of 1:24.480 - already faster than his lap record from last year - while Barrichello was just 0.156 seconds behind.

Pole man Montoya finished third in his Williams-BMW, a further 0.102 seconds back, with Schumacher four tenths of a second slower than his front-row partner in his Ferrari.

Finn Kimi Raikkonen, who will start from sixth spot after being demoted from fifth following his collision with Jordan's Takuma Sato in qualifying, was fifth fastest for McLaren-Mercedes, just two tenths behind Schumacher.

Sato went off track again when he made a small mistake at the Parabolica and Barrichello also had a brief run across the gravel at the Curva del Vialone after out-braking himself.

Jacques Villeneuve's BAR Honda came to a halt at the end of the pitlane and he was forced to push it back past the exit line before his mechanics could take it the rest of the way.

Frenchman Olivier Panis, of BAR Honda, and Brazilian Felipe Massa, of Sauber, were sixth and seventh fastest with Briton David Coulthard eighth for McLaren, Mika Salo ninth in his Toyota and the second Sauber of Nick Heidfeld tenth.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. R.Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:24.480 16 2. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:24.636 + 0.156 15 3. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:24.738 + 0.258 8 4. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:25.137 + 0.657 10 5. Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:25.350 + 0.870 10 6. Panis BAR Honda (B) 1:25.394 + 0.914 12 7. Massa Sauber Petronas (B) 1:25.428 + 0.948 15 8. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:25.547 + 1.067 11 9. Salo Toyota (M) 1:25.751 + 1.271 14 10. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:25.785 + 1.305 9 11. Irvine Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:25.899 + 1.419 15 12. McNish Toyota (M) 1:26.081 + 1.601 12 13. Sato Jordan Honda (B) 1:26.201 + 1.721 13 14. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:26.464 + 1.984 12 15. Fisichella Jordan Honda (B) 1:26.556 + 2.076 15 16. Trulli Renault (M) 1:26.705 + 2.225 8 17. Button Renault (M) 1:27.198 + 2.718 5 18. Webber Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:27.596 + 3.116 10 19. Yoong Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:28.408 + 3.928 12 20. de la Rosa Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:35.213 + 10.733 6 All Timing Unofficial

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