|
Place |
No. |
Driver |
Team |
Time |
Speed |
|
1. |
1. |
Schumacher
M |
Ferrari |
1:35.220 |
209.565 |
|
2. |
2. |
Barrichello |
Ferrari |
1:35.319 |
209.348 |
|
3. |
5. |
Schumacher
R |
Williams |
1:35.511 |
208.927 |
|
4. |
3. |
Hakkinen |
McLaren |
1:36.040 |
207.776 |
|
5. |
12. |
Trulli |
Jordan |
1:36.180 |
207.473 |
|
6. |
6. |
Montoya |
Williams |
1:36.218 |
207.392 |
|
7. |
10. |
Villeneuve |
BAR |
1:36.397 |
207.006 |
|
8. |
4. |
Coulthard |
McLaren |
1:36.417 |
206.964 |
|
9. |
11. |
Frentzen |
Jordan |
1:36.578 |
206.618 |
|
10. |
9. |
Panis |
BAR |
1:36.681 |
206.398 |
|
11. |
16. |
Heidfeld |
Sauber |
1:36.913 |
205.904 |
|
12. |
18. |
Irvine |
Jaguar |
1:37.140 |
205.423 |
|
13. |
22. |
Alesi |
Prost |
1:37.406 |
204.862 |
|
14. |
17. |
Raikkonen |
Sauber |
1:37.728 |
204.187 |
|
15. |
19. |
Burti |
Jaguar |
1:38.035 |
203.548 |
|
16. |
7. |
Fisichella |
Benetton |
1:38.086 |
203.442 |
|
17. |
14. |
Verstappen |
Arrows |
1:38.509 |
202.568 |
|
18. |
8. |
Button |
Benetton |
1:38.533 |
202.519 |
|
19. |
15. |
Bernoldi |
Arrows |
1:38.708 |
202.160 |
|
20. |
23. |
Mazzacane |
Prost |
1:39.006 |
201.551 |
|
21. |
20. |
Marques |
Minardi |
1:39.714 |
200.120 |
|
22. |
21. |
Alonso |
Minardi |
1:40.249 |
199.052 |
Honda
Notes
All four Honda-powered cars and drivers secured top 10 starting positions
and within just 0.5 seconds of each other for tomorrow's Malaysian Grand
Prix at Sepang circuit, Kuala Lumpur. Benson & Hedges Jordan Honda's
Jarno Trulli led the quartet home with the fifth fastest time and Jacques
Villeneuve qualified seventh in the first of the two Lucky Strike Reynard
BAR Hondas. Their team-mates Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Olivier Panis
qualified ninth and tenth respectively to share row five of the grid.
Michael Schumacher looked good for pole after consistent running in the
morning but it was his younger sibling Ralf who was the surprise in
qualifying and threatened to deprive Michael of his accustomed place
having set two provisional pole times. But the Ferrari pairing of
Schumacher senior and Rubens Barrichello prevailed and for the second time
this year locked out the front row.
Jarno Trulli and his Jordan Honda were in confident form and, until a
last-gasp effort by McLaren's Mika Hakkinen pipped him to fourth in the
final minutes of the session, the Italian would have lined up tomorrow on
the second row alongside Ralf Schumacher. BAR Honda's Jacques Villeneuve
got ahead of Hakkinen's team-mate David Coulthard with a committed run to
take seventh, only two-tenths off Trulli, while Heinz-Harald Frentzen and
Olivier Panis were split by only a tenth of a second.
Jarno Trulli Position: 5th "For qualifying I had exactly the same car set-up as yesterday. I was
really fighting and the car was well-balanced, but on a few corners I
couldn't push as much as I wanted as I don't know the car enough yet or
have enough time to make the exact changes to improve things. Again
though, we proved that we are very close to the top teams."
Kazutoshi Nishizawa - Technical Director, Honda Racing Development
"It is fair to say we had higher expectations from today but all four cars
are in a good position. Tomorrow's race is going to be a totally
different environment to qualifying and we think we are in a strong
position for a good result."
Eddie Jordan, Jordan Honda "It was a very exciting session. It is good to see Jarno doing a quick
one just at the end. The fight was very tough and it would have
been nice to see Heinz further up. Although fifth and ninth were not what we hoped
for, we're not in too bad shape for the race."
Craig Pollock, BAR Honda "It was a very nerve-wracking qualifying session because we could have
finished anywhere in the top 12 looking at the order from the two practice
sessions. The team have done an extremely good job and the drivers have
shown their worth in this qualifying session."
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