Friday April 26th, 2002

By Will Gray

Ferrari continued the dominant form they showed in the last race at Imola by taking another one-two finish in Friday's opening practice session for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.

As temperatures rose to 22 degrees Celsius in the warming sun at the Barcelona track, German World Champion Michael Schumacher was the fastest man on the circuit, just 0.061 seconds ahead of his Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello.

The pair were closely matched and they showed the pace of the Italian team's new F2002 car again by finishing more than half a second faster than closest rival, Brazilian Felipe Massa, in a Ferrari-powered Sauber.

Massa, who celebrated his 21st birthday on Thursday, was one tenth of a second faster than the man he replaced at the Swiss team, Finn Kimi Raikkonen, in the McLaren-Mercedes. Jarno Trulli was fifth for Renault, with Heinz-Harald Frentzen sixth in the Arrows despite a brief spin half-way through the session.

The second McLaren of David Coulthard was seventh, more than one second slower than Schumacher's lead Ferrari, with German Nick Heidfeld eighth in the second Sauber.

The session started badly for the troubled Jordan team when the car of their Japanese driver Takuma Sato ground to a halt a few metres from the pit exit just 30 seconds after the green light.

But Italian Giancarlo Fisichella put a smile back on their faces by the end of the session with a pleasing ninth-place finish, one place ahead of Arrows' Enrique Bernoldi.

Pos  Driver        Team                    Times                 
 1.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari            (B)  1:20.681  211.053 km/h
 2.  Barrichello   Ferrari            (B)  1:20.742    +    0.061
 3.  Massa         Sauber Petronas    (B)  1:21.364    +    0.683
 4.  Raikkonen     McLaren Mercedes   (M)  1:21.472    +    0.791
 5.  Trulli        Renault            (M)  1:21.631    +    0.950
 6.  Frentzen      Arrows Cosworth    (B)  1:21.640    +    0.959
 7.  Coulthard     McLaren Mercedes   (M)  1:21.861    +    1.180
 8.  Heidfeld      Sauber Petronas    (B)  1:21.950    +    1.269
 9.  Fisichella    Jordan Honda       (B)  1:21.981    +    1.300
10.  Bernoldi      Arrows Cosworth    (B)  1:22.126    +    1.445
11.  Button        Renault            (M)  1:22.180    +    1.499
12.  R.Schumacher  Williams BMW       (M)  1:22.223    +    1.542
13.  Panis         BAR Honda          (B)  1:22.277    +    1.596
14.  Salo          Toyota             (M)  1:22.289    +    1.608
15.  Montoya       Williams BMW       (M)  1:22.370    +    1.689
16.  de la Rosa    Jaguar Cosworth    (M)  1:22.430    +    1.749
17.  Villeneuve    BAR Honda          (B)  1:22.645    +    1.964
18.  Irvine        Jaguar Cosworth    (M)  1:22.893    +    2.212
19.  McNish        Toyota             (M)  1:23.051    +    2.370
20.  Webber        Minardi Asiatech   (M)  1:23.480    +    2.799
21.  Yoong         Minardi Asiatech   (M)  1:24.598    +    3.917
22.  Sato          Jordan Honda       (B)  no time

All Timing Unofficial

Published at 10:02:17 GMT

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