Saturday May 25th, 2002

Brazilian Rubens Barrichello once again out-paced his teammate Michael Schumacher, as he set the fastest time in the opening practice session on Saturday morning at the sunny Monaco circuit.

Barrichello's late lap jumped him ahead of Schumacher, who is bidding to secure a record-equalling sixth Monaco victory. Williams-BMW driver Juan Pablo Montoya claimed third, but he was more than a second slower than the lead Ferrari.

The impressively performing Renault duo of Italian Jarno Trulli and Briton Jenson Button, who led the times for much of the 45-minute session, claimed fourth and fifth respectively.

Ralf Schumacher secured the sixth fastest time in the second Williams-BMW, while Finn Kimi Raikkonen and Briton David Coulthard did their best to boost the hopes of McLaren-Mercedes by claiming seventh and eighth fastest times.

German Heinz-Harald Frentzen was ninth for Arrows, and Italian Giancarlo Fisichella, of Jordan-Honda, completed the top ten.

The two Toyota cars were leading the field with 15 minutes gone as Scot Allan McNish continued his form from Thursday practice by leading Finnish team-mate Mika Salo. But they ended up 15th and 13th respectively.

Button's lap of one minute and 19.640 seconds kept him ahead of the field for much of the session but he was finally overhauled by Schumacher, Barrichello, Montoya and Trulli in the dying minutes of the session.

The drivers were clearly being careful not to hit the barriers and the only incidents in the session were from Webber and McNish, who both overshot the corner at Ste Devote but missed the barriers and were able to continue.

Pos  Driver        Team                   Time                    Laps
 1.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:18.385  154.775 km/h  20  
 2.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:18.471    +    0.086  25  
 3.  Montoya       Williams BMW      (M)  1:19.558    +    1.173  14  
 4.  Trulli        Renault           (M)  1:19.635    +    1.250  10  
 5.  Button        Renault           (M)  1:19.640    +    1.255  13  
 6.  R.Schumacher  Williams BMW      (M)  1:19.746    +    1.361  13  
 7.  Raikkonen     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:19.988    +    1.603  19  
 8.  Coulthard     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:20.020    +    1.635  16  
 9.  Frentzen      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:20.330    +    1.945  20  
10.  Fisichella    Jordan Honda      (B)  1:20.353    +    1.968  16  
11.  Heidfeld      Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:20.510    +    2.125  13  
12.  Panis         BAR Honda         (B)  1:20.612    +    2.227  20  
13.  Salo          Toyota            (M)  1:20.834    +    2.449  14  
14.  Sato          Jordan Honda      (B)  1:20.853    +    2.468  20  
15.  McNish        Toyota            (M)  1:20.876    +    2.491  17  
16.  Villeneuve    BAR Honda         (B)  1:21.437    +    3.052  23  
17.  Massa         Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:21.641    +    3.256  14  
18.  Irvine        Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:21.884    +    3.499  12  
19.  Bernoldi      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:21.918    +    3.533  17  
20.  Webber        Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:22.100    +    3.715  18  
21.  de la Rosa    Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:22.879    +    4.494  19  
22.  Yoong         Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:24.383    +    5.998  20  

All Timing Unofficial

Published at 07:50:29 GMT

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