Massa quickest in final practice

Formula 1:   Felipe Massa took the honours in the final practice session ahead of tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Formula 1:  Felipe Massa took the honours in the final practice session ahead of tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Running set-ups in preparation for qualifying, the top seven were all quicker than the fastest lap of yesterday posted by Fernando Alonso.

At the end of the hour-long run at the Hungaroring, it was Massa and Ferrari who topped the timesheets, with the Brazilian clocking one minute 20.183 seconds for the 4.384km circuit on the outskirts of Budapest.

The McLarens of reigning double world champion Alonso and current leader of the drivers' standings Lewis Hamilton were second and third respectively.

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Alonso was just 0.231secs off the pace, with Hamilton fractions of a second behind his Spanish team-mate.

The BMW Sauber of Nick Heidfeld broke the Ferrari-McLaren monopoly by setting the fourth best lap time ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, who yesterday complained of handling problems with his car.

Williams' Nico Rosberg and the Toyotas of Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher were also within a second of Massa, leaving Mark Webber for Red Bull Racing and Alex Wurz for Williams to complete the top 10.

Anthony Davidson was a promising 11th for Super Aguri, with David Coulthard 14th in the second Red Bull and last year's race winner Jenson Button 18th - just over two seconds down - in his Honda.

Sakon Yamamoto, making his debut for Spyker this weekend, again brought up the rear, although was at least closer to his team- mate than at any stage yesterday.

The Japanese driver, back in a Formula One car for the first time since the Brazilian Grand Prix at the end of last year when he drove for Super Aguri, was just 0.5secs adrift of Adrian Sutil.