Alonso tops final practice

Fernando Alonso set the fastest time in the Saturday practice session this morning, beating McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton to second. Ferrari's Felipe Massa was third but Kimi Raikkonen was twentieth having suffered a massive crash, happily without...

Fernando Alonso set the fastest time in the Saturday practice session this morning, beating McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton to second. Ferrari's Felipe Massa was third but Kimi Raikkonen was twentieth having suffered a massive crash, happily without injury.

Alonso and Hamilton almost crashed into each other when the session restarted after the interruption caused by the crash.

Alonso's best time was 1:22.494, with Hamilton just 0.046 seconds behind. Massa was 0.561 seconds behind the leader while Raikkonen fell back to 20th following his crash.

BMW's Nick Heidfeld was fourth with team-mate Robert Kubica fifth.

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