Formula 1 news
Schumacher back on top in morning practice
03 July 2004 / Results |
Ferrari's Michael Schumacher set the pace in Saturday morning's first free practice session with a lap of 1m14.944s in the warm and dry conditions where air temperature reached seventeen degrees Centigrade and the track twenty-five degrees.
David Coulthard finished second in the revised McLaren but was half a second behind Schumacher. Jarno Trulli was just 0.02s behind Coulthard with the second Renault of Alonso in fourth - the team looking strong on home soil.
Olivier Panis continued Toyota's more impressive weekend with fifth ahead of Rubens Barrichello and the lead Williams of Juan Pablo Montoya - who is back on track after his crash in the wet practice yesterday.
Mark Webber, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jenson Button rounded off the top ten while yesterday's pace setter Cristiano da Matta finished eleventh.
Ralf Schumacher's replacement, Marc Gené, finished thirteenth fastest while McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen spent most of the practice in the pits - the team electing to change his clutch after sensing some problems with the component.
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