Jos stays in during the rain
Published on 27 January 2006 by Thorsten Hendriks
Somewhat 'spoiled' by changing weather and flags (red and green) the second free practice has taken place. Australia set the fastest time, Jos Verstappen could not continie after his installation lap and together with Indonesia and Pakistan they did not set a time. "It was raining so hard that it would have been useful to go out, when we went out it was very difficult due to the water on the track and aquaplaning. In the last ten minutes we made another attempt but that ended up in a code red when team India crashed."
Jos doesn't think he lost anything in comparison with the other teams. "In this weather it is better to stay in. This morning it went that well, I don't have the feeling I have lost a lot during this session. It was wiser not to take the risk. In this weather and cars sliding you're not only taking risks for yourself but the others are also a danger to you. I do intend to drive the race on Sunday."
1 AUSTRALIA Will DAVISON 1'30.520 16 2 PORTUGAL Alvaro PARENTE 1'31.193 12 3 CZECH REPUBLIC Tomas ENGE 1'31.797 8 4 ITALY Massimiliano BUSNELLI 1'32.330 13 5 GERMANY Timo SCHEIDER 1'32.797 9 6 USA Philip GIEBLER 1'32.832 18 7 IRELAND Ralph FIRMAN 1'34.189 23 8 CANADA Sean McINTOSH 1'34.266 24 9 LEBANON Basil SHAABAN 1'34.671 14 10 CHINA Tengyi JIANG 1'34.711 11 11 GREAT BRITAIN Robbie KERR 1'34.974 12 12 SWITZERLAND Neel JANI 1'35.562 8 13 SOUTH AFRICA Stephen SIMPSON 1'35.706 9 14 MALAYSIA Alex YOONG 1'36.116 8 15 MEXICO David MARTINEZ 1'36.408 12 16 AUSTRIA Mathias LAUDA 1'36.435 14 17 FRANCE Alexandre PREMAT 1'37.640 6 18 BRAZIL Nelson Angelo PIQUET 1'38.977 5 19 NEW ZEALAND Matt HALLIDAY 1'40.150 6 20 INDIA Armaan EBRAHIM 1'55.621 5 21 INDONESIA Ananda MIKOLA 22 NETHERLANDS Jos VERSTAPPEN 23 PAKISTAN Adam KHAN
Thorsten Hendriks
