Saturday June 22nd, 2002

World Champion Michael Schumacher headed a Ferrari one-two on his home ground at the Nurburgring in Saturday morning's first practice session ahead of the afternoon qualifying for the European Grand Prix.

The German recovered from a mistake that saw him spin at turn 14 to set a fastest time of 1:30.658 with ten minutes of the 45-minute session remaining. Schumacher's time bumped his brother Ralf down to second place, and he dropped a further spot when Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello improved to claim second spot as the younger Schumacher was left more than one second off the pace.

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya, who is seeking his third pole position in succession after starting from the front in Canada and Monaco, claimed the fourth fastest time.

German Nick Heidfeld was fifth fastest for Sauber, but he was more than two seconds slower than Schumacher. Finn Kimi Raikkonen, of McLaren-Mercedes, was sandwiched between the Swiss team's cars as Brazilian Felipe Massa claimed seventh spot.

Briton Jenson Button matched his place in Friday's practice sessions with another eighth place, but this time he was two places ahead of teammate Jarno Trulli, rather than one place behind.

Briton David Coulthard, who topped the times in the first day of running, finished down in ninth place, 2.321 seconds off Ferrari's pace in the tightly-bunched middle order.

Pos  Driver        Team                   Time                    Laps
 1.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:30.658  204.267 km/h   9  
 2.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:31.598    +    0.940  10  
 3.  R.Schumacher  Williams BMW      (M)  1:31.685    +    1.027  14  
 4.  Montoya       Williams BMW      (M)  1:32.257    +    1.599  14  
 5.  Heidfeld      Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:32.758    +    2.100  10  
 6.  Raikkonen     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:32.849    +    2.191   9  
 7.  Massa         Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:32.913    +    2.255  12  
 8.  Button        Renault           (M)  1:32.926    +    2.268   9  
 9.  Coulthard     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:32.979    +    2.321  10  
10.  Trulli        Renault           (M)  1:33.217    +    2.559  10  
11.  Frentzen      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:33.751    +    3.093  10  
12.  Panis         BAR Honda         (B)  1:33.806    +    3.148  14  
13.  Fisichella    Jordan Honda      (B)  1:33.946    +    3.288   9  
14.  Sato          Jordan Honda      (B)  1:34.272    +    3.614  17  
15.  Bernoldi      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:34.315    +    3.657  10  
16.  Villeneuve    BAR Honda         (B)  1:34.579    +    3.921  14  
17.  Irvine        Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:34.969    +    4.311  12  
18.  McNish        Toyota            (M)  1:35.212    +    4.554  16  
19.  Salo          Toyota            (M)  1:35.320    +    4.662  18  
20.  Webber        Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:35.567    +    4.909  12  
21.  Yoong         Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:37.142    +    6.484  15  
22.  de la Rosa    Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:44.598    +   13.940   3  

All Timing Unofficial

Published at 07:05:42 GMT

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