Saturday April 28th, 2001

Michael Schumacher stamped his authority at the Circuit de Catalunya as he dominated Saturday's practice sessions and set himself up for a return to the top of the grid in qualifying.

The Ferrari driver posted a quickest of lap time of 1:18.634 seconds in the opening session and was unable to better the mark in the second practice.

He was marginally quicker than teammate Rubens Barrichello, who produced a late lap to better McLaren driver David Coulthard, who had an excursion onto the gravel.

Sauber's impressive opening to the season continued with rookie Kimi Raikkonen ending fourth in the timesheets with his teammate Nick Heidfeld behind in fifth.

Jordan's Jarno Trulli was sixth with BAR's Olivier Panis seventh, ahead of McLaren's Mika Hakkinen, who was unable to improve on the time that left him second in the opening session.

San Marino Grand Prix winner Ralf Schumacher struggled as he was ninth quickest in his Michelin-shod Williams and the Jaguar's of Eddie Irvine and Pedro de la Rosa also failed to make their mark.

Irvine ended 17th, while De la Rosa was 21st after his car mysteriously veered off to the right and crashed into a wall. He was unhurt in the incident.

Minardi's Tarso Marques remains outside of the 107% time and will fail to qualify unless he improves in qualifying.

Pos  Driver        Team                    Times                 
 1.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari            (B)  1:18.634  216.548 km/h
 2.  Barrichello   Ferrari            (B)  1:18.674    +    0.040
 3.  Coulthard     McLaren Mercedes   (B)  1:18.686    +    0.052
 4.  Raikkonen     Sauber Petronas    (B)  1:18.765    +    0.131
 5.  Heidfeld      Sauber Petronas    (B)  1:19.010    +    0.376
 6.  Trulli        Jordan Honda       (B)  1:19.186    +    0.552
 7.  Panis         BAR Honda          (B)  1:19.253    +    0.619
 8.  Hakkinen      McLaren Mercedes   (B)  1:19.281    +    0.647
 9.  R.Schumacher  Williams BMW       (M)  1:19.406    +    0.772
10.  Villeneuve    BAR Honda          (B)  1:19.577    +    0.943
11.  Frentzen      Jordan Honda       (B)  1:19.903    +    1.269
12.  Montoya       Williams BMW       (M)  1:20.202    +    1.568
13.  Alesi         Prost Acer         (M)  1:20.741    +    2.107
14.  Burti         Prost Acer         (M)  1:20.801    +    2.167
15.  Bernoldi      Arrows Asiatech    (B)  1:20.997    +    2.363
16.  Verstappen    Arrows Asiatech    (B)  1:21.069    +    2.435
17.  Irvine        Jaguar Cosworth    (M)  1:21.289    +    2.655
18.  Fisichella    Benetton Renault   (M)  1:21.404    +    2.770
19.  Alonso        Minardi European   (M)  1:21.493    +    2.859
20.  Button        Benetton Renault   (M)  1:21.804    +    3.170
21.  de la Rosa    Jaguar Cosworth    (M)  1:22.296    +    3.662
22.  Marques       Minardi European   (M)  1:24.371    +    5.737

All Timing Unofficial

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