Saturday July 27th, 2002

By Will Gray

The German Schumacher brothers ignited home crowd expectations for this weekend's German Grand Prix when they finished first and second on Saturday in the final morning practice session before the crucial afternoon qualifying hour.

World Champion Michael Schumacher completed his preparation with an impressive performance to top the times at the new Hockenheimring, finishing fastest for the third session in succession.

He improved his time from the earlier 45-minute practice to become the first man inside the one minute and 14 seconds bracket, but the run of Ferrari one-twos was ended as Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello was left third, behind Ralf Schumacher's Williams-BMW and almost a second adrift.

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya was fourth in the second Williams-BMW, just 13 hundredths of a second behind Barrichello, with Sauber's Nick Heidfeld making it three Germans in the top five and his Brazilian teammate Felipe Massa completing the top six.

There were several spinners as the drivers made the best of their final chance to explore the limits of the new track before the crucial qualifying hour, with both Renaults of Italian Jarno Trulli and Briton Jenson Button among the big names to get it wrong.

Italian Giancarlo Fisichella was seventh for Jordan, with the Toyota pair of Mika Salo and Allan McNish claiming an impressive eighth and tenth respectively for Toyota, sandwiching Briton David Coulthard's McLaren-Mercedes in ninth place.

Pos  Driver        Team                   Time                    Laps
 1.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:14.487  221.064 km/h  29  
 2.  R.Schumacher  Williams BMW      (M)  1:15.154    +    0.667  30  
 3.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:15.459    +    0.972  15  
 4.  Montoya       Williams BMW      (M)  1:15.472    +    0.985  31  
 5.  Heidfeld      Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:15.862    +    1.375  23  
 6.  Massa         Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:15.997    +    1.510  27  
 7.  Fisichella    Jordan Honda      (B)  1:16.093    +    1.606  32  
 8.  Salo          Toyota            (M)  1:16.195    +    1.708  29  
 9.  Coulthard     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:16.206    +    1.719  29  
10.  McNish        Toyota            (M)  1:16.399    +    1.912  29  
11.  Trulli        Renault           (M)  1:16.403    +    1.916  30  
12.  Raikkonen     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:16.482    +    1.995  24  
13.  Sato          Jordan Honda      (B)  1:16.494    +    2.007  26  
14.  Panis         BAR Honda         (B)  1:16.694    +    2.207  31  
15.  Irvine        Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:16.876    +    2.389  31  
16.  Villeneuve    BAR Honda         (B)  1:16.938    +    2.451  36  
17.  Frentzen      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:17.163    +    2.676  22  
18.  de la Rosa    Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:17.218    +    2.731  30  
19.  Bernoldi      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:17.258    +    2.771  32  
20.  Button        Renault           (M)  1:17.455    +    2.968  14  
21.  Webber        Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:18.291    +    3.804  35  
22.  Yoong         Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:20.314    +    5.827  25  

All Timing Unofficial

Published at 09:04:22 GMT

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