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First Saturday Practice
Session Report - Results
Michael Schumacher was fastest
in the first free practice this morning. He was just over 7/10ths of a
second faster than Mika Hakkinen who posted the second fastest time. Mika
was 1/5th of a second faster than his team-mate David Coulthard who was
third fastest.
Barrichello, who was very fast
yesterday did not get a chance to show any real speed before his car
expired with a blown engine - relegating him to 8th fastest.
Reliability marred the
practice. Barrichello's Ferrari blew an engine, Alonso's Minardi smoked
into the pits after one lap and Verstappen parked on the side with a
transmission problem. This could well mean that we will see many
retirements in tomorrow's race.
The Honda powered cars are
looking a lot better with three currently performing in the top 6.
The pace is astounding with 11
cars faster than last year's pole time. At this rate we may see qualifying
times below 1minute 27 seconds this afternoon.
Enrique Bernoldi covered the
most number of laps with 17 followed by Jacques Villeneuve with 15 and
Tarso Marques and Olivier Panis with 14 laps. Kimi Raikkonen failed to
complete a single timed lap while Jenson Button only managed 3 laps while
Rubens Barrichello only 6 laps as he suffered a blown engine.
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