Heinz-Harald caught out on Trulli’s oil
By Huw Alban
May 11 2002
The OrangeArrows team had an incident packed qualifying hour today in Austria, and as a result the final position was slightly disappointing. An oil slick from Renault was the major cause, but the team fought back and line up 11th and 12th for tomorrow’s race.
By Huw Alban
May 11 2002
The OrangeArrows team had an incident packed qualifying hour today in Austria, and as a result the final position was slightly disappointing. An oil slick from Renault was the major cause, but the team fought back and line up 11th and 12th for tomorrow’s race.
The temperature at the Austrian circuit had risen to around 29 degrees for the start of the qualifying hour, and again the local weather forecasters were predicting rain later in the day - possibly affecting the back end of the qualifying hour.
There was no action on track for at least 10 minutes after the session got started, and the TV coverage showed a shot of Enrique Bernoldi stood in the pit lane talking intently to Arrows and Bridgestone personnel. Mark Webber was the first to take to the track, for Minardi, and his first attempt was an uncompetitive 1:13.794.
Enrique was the first Arrows driver to take to the track about 20 minutes into the session. He was immediately quick, setting the fastest sector times of the session so far, and a 1:10.519 netted him second fastest at this point. He was quickly demoted to 4th by quicker laps from both the McLaren drivers.
The session was stopped just over half way through, just when Heinz-Harald Frentzen was about to complete his first flying lap. Jarno Trulli’s Renault engine let go in between the last two corners of the circuit, spreading oil all over the tarmac surface. Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello was the first to be caught out, followed swiftly by Heinz-Harald. His A23’s back end stepped out on the slippery surface propelling him into the large gravel trap. The car bounced through the gravel losing bits of bodywork along the way, but Frentzen managed to keep the car going and gained enough turn to point the car towards the pit lane entrance road.
The session restarted at 13:40 Austrian time, and 5 minutes later Jacques Villeneuve’s BAR appeared and he went faster than his previous laps. This was the signal for the rest of the grid to carry on with their qualifying, and the last 20 minutes saw some frantic activity.
Enrique Bernoldi improved to 7th on his next run, but there were still no timed laps from Heinz-Harald. The German made it out onto the circuit about 4 minutes later, and with 13 minutes to go put in what the UK TV coverage commentators described as a ‘tidy lap’ to net him 15th. Enrique had lost 1 place to an improved Mika Salo and was now 8th.
Heinz-Harald was back out again with 7.5 minutes of the session remaining, and managed to improve to 10th. His lap was perhaps hampered slightly by Enrique Bernoldi, who was on a slowing down lap. The UK TV coverage showed the German having to sweep awkwardly past the Brazilian towards the end of his run.
With 5 minutes left to go, Heinz-Harald had been demoted to 11th and Enrique 12th, and that was where the team stayed to the end of the session.
A slightly disappointing qualifying hour, but no doubt hampered slightly by the incident involving Jarno Trulli’s oil. Is the team far back enough though to now not be caught up in any 1st corner incidents ? This site hopes so !
There was no action on track for at least 10 minutes after the session got started, and the TV coverage showed a shot of Enrique Bernoldi stood in the pit lane talking intently to Arrows and Bridgestone personnel. Mark Webber was the first to take to the track, for Minardi, and his first attempt was an uncompetitive 1:13.794.
Enrique was the first Arrows driver to take to the track about 20 minutes into the session. He was immediately quick, setting the fastest sector times of the session so far, and a 1:10.519 netted him second fastest at this point. He was quickly demoted to 4th by quicker laps from both the McLaren drivers.
The session was stopped just over half way through, just when Heinz-Harald Frentzen was about to complete his first flying lap. Jarno Trulli’s Renault engine let go in between the last two corners of the circuit, spreading oil all over the tarmac surface. Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello was the first to be caught out, followed swiftly by Heinz-Harald. His A23’s back end stepped out on the slippery surface propelling him into the large gravel trap. The car bounced through the gravel losing bits of bodywork along the way, but Frentzen managed to keep the car going and gained enough turn to point the car towards the pit lane entrance road.
The session restarted at 13:40 Austrian time, and 5 minutes later Jacques Villeneuve’s BAR appeared and he went faster than his previous laps. This was the signal for the rest of the grid to carry on with their qualifying, and the last 20 minutes saw some frantic activity.
Enrique Bernoldi improved to 7th on his next run, but there were still no timed laps from Heinz-Harald. The German made it out onto the circuit about 4 minutes later, and with 13 minutes to go put in what the UK TV coverage commentators described as a ‘tidy lap’ to net him 15th. Enrique had lost 1 place to an improved Mika Salo and was now 8th.
Heinz-Harald was back out again with 7.5 minutes of the session remaining, and managed to improve to 10th. His lap was perhaps hampered slightly by Enrique Bernoldi, who was on a slowing down lap. The UK TV coverage showed the German having to sweep awkwardly past the Brazilian towards the end of his run.
With 5 minutes left to go, Heinz-Harald had been demoted to 11th and Enrique 12th, and that was where the team stayed to the end of the session.
A slightly disappointing qualifying hour, but no doubt hampered slightly by the incident involving Jarno Trulli’s oil. Is the team far back enough though to now not be caught up in any 1st corner incidents ? This site hopes so !
Bookmark or share this story with:
Digg
Delicious
Facebook
Reddit
Stumbleupon
More Arrows headlines
- Smaller teams to benefit from Arrows demise
- Arrows is wound up for good (sob)
- Arrows noticeably absent from Autosport
- Arrows attracts interest say receivers
- A bleak end to 2002 for Arrows
- A Merry Christmas to all Arrows fans
- Arrows appeal cancelled & Behring deal off
- Arrows website off the air; Minardi targeted
- Arrows in trouble if appeal unsuccessful