Summary

In the morning it seemed you needed to have Bridgestone tyres in the rain, Rubens Barrichello and Damon Hill topped the times, but in the afternoon it was a different story altogether. Mostly because of the drying track the times are more of a roulette then a real reflection of the way things are, even when the Friday would be representative. An indication for this is that just 11 drivers are within the 107% rule.

Fastest man Michael Schumacher was almost 1.5 seconds faster than second place driver Giancarlo Fisichella.

Notes

• There were quite a number of spins and drivers going off the track because of the tricky track conditions.
  • Weather during session: Overcast, drying track

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M. Schumacher (Ferrari) Fisichella (Jordan) Hakkinen (McLaren) R. Schumacher (Jordan) Villeneuve (Williams) Frentzen (Williams) Verstappen (Tyrrell) Alesi (Benetton) Herbert (Sauber) Barrichello (Stewart) Katayama (Minardi) 107% rule Nakano (Prost) Hill (Arrows) Marques (Minardi) Salo (Tyrrell) Diniz (Arrows) Coulthard (McLaren) Fontana (Sauber) Trulli (Prost) Irvine (Ferrari) Wurz (Benetton) Magnussen (Stewart)

1m 18.339s 1m 19.838s 1m 20.014s 1m 20.020s 1m 20.225s 1m 20.469s 1m 20.512s 1m 21.742s 1m 22.206s 1m 23.232s 1m 23.469s 1m 23.823s 1m 23.839s 1m 24.494s 1m 24.535s 1m 25.499s 1m 26.108s 1m 27.460s 1m 27.905s 1m 29.600s 1m 31.193s 1m 31.943s 1m 34.357s

Jacques Villeneuve has spoken out again just two weeks after his FIA hearing in Paris about the remarks he made on the 1998 rule change. The subject now is Olivier Panis. Villeneuve thinks Formula One is too politically correct.

He said: "When some has an accident everyone acts sad but do they really care? Two broken legs is not that bad. You can comeback and race but a skier would be off a long time."