By Huw Alban
June 21 2002

Arrows spent the free practice time today working again on balancing the A23 for the Nürburgring. Heinz-Harald is still not happy with his car, but made progress on race set-up. Enrique had an unfortunate encounter with a barrier but still got his work done. 13th and 19th was the final result today. Heinz-Harald Frentzen:

“We had a fairly productive first day of running, evaluating the balance of the car and racing fuel levels. I’m not yet happy with the balance but we are working on that. I like the new track layout. I’ve got used to the new combination of corners now and I think it will create some overtaking opportunities in the race on Sunday.”

Enrique Bernoldi:

“I lost a lot of track time today after my spin in the first session but I think we pretty much caught up with ourselves. I had enough time to evaluate the tyres although we still have a bit of work to do with the balance of the car as we are struggling a bit there. The changes to the track are okay but the new complex is pretty slow.”

Graham Taylor, Chief Race Engineer, OrangeArrows:

“We struggled a bit today with the compromise between the low speed and high speed corners ... what you gain in one, you lose in another! We got through our tyre assessments and did our analysis work for the race. We’ll be looking at our data this afternoon to find the step forward we need to make.”