By Andrew Hooper
October 12 2002
| Japanese GP Saturday 1st Practice | |
| After Saturday's opening
practice both BMW WilliamsF1 drivers would finish in the top six with Ralf
third and Juan Pablo sixth. Both drivers would be down on the fastest
times by over a second.
With the session starting it
would be Juan Pablo who would be the first BMW WilliamsF1 Team driver to
leave the pit-lane for a timed run. Unfortunately Michael Schumacher would
ruin his first flying lap by getting in the way, forcing him to lift and
break off his flying lap. But once again it would be
the Ferrari's who would return to the top of the times. After his Friday
problems Michael would again set the pace setting a fastest lap time of
1m:32.978 to finish in front of second placed Rubens Barrichello. Michael
was able to set a time a second faster than anyone else on his first lap.
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| Driver Team (Tyres) Time
Gap Laps 01. M Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:32.978 07 02. R Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:33.688 0.710 07 03. R Schumacher BMW.WilliamsF1 (M) 1:34.142 1.164 08 04. D Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:34.540 1.562 09 05. K Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:34.552 1.574 08 06. JP Montoya BMW.WilliamsF1 (M) 1:34.751 1.773 08 07. J Trulli Renault (M) 1:35.330 2.352 08 08. E Irvine Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:35.533 2.555 07 09. G Fisichella Jordan-Honda (B) 1:35.541 2.563 08 10. F Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:35.587 2.609 09 11. N Heidfeld Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:35.999 3.021 08 12. T Sato Jordan-Honda (B) 1:36.199 3.221 12 13. J Button Renault (M) 1:36.224 3.246 07 14. M Salo Toyota (M) 1:36.265 3.287 07 15. P de la Rosa Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:36.342 3.364 07 16. O Panis BAR-Honda (B) 1:36.792 3.814 11 17. J Villeneuve BAR-Honda (B) 1:36.830 3.852 12 18. A McNish Toyota (M) 1:37.306 4.328 04 19. M Webber Minardi-Asiatech (M) 1:37.673 4.695 10 20. A Yoong Minardi-Asiatech (M) 1:39.254 6.276 11 |
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