Summary
Both the Ferrari's topped the first free practise for the Argentine Grand Prix today. They couldn't keep up this pace however and they had to watch as Jacques Villeneuve took a great gap between him and second place driver Rubens Barrichello, who his doing a terrific job in the Stewart-Ford. The second driver using Bridgestone tyres was Olivier Panis in the Prost-Mugen.
Notes
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Villeneuve (Williams) Barrichello (Stewart) Panis (Prost) Berger (Benetton) Schumacher (Ferrari) Fisichella (Jordan) Frentzen (Williams) Herbert (Sauber) R. Schumacher (Jordan) Alesi (Benetton) Irvine (Ferrari) Coulthard (McLaren) Hill (Arrows) Larini (Sauber) Verstappen (Tyrrell) Hakkinen (McLaren) Salo (Tyrrell) Nakano (Prost) Magnussen (Stewart) Katayama (Minardi) Diniz (Arrows) Trulli (Minardi)
107% rule |
1m 25.755s 1m 26.693s 1m 26.983s 1m 27.017s 1m 27.052s 1m 27.129s 1m 27.169s 1m 27.702s 1m 27.823s 1m 27.979s 1m 28.137s 1m 28.163s 1m 28.932s 1m 29.153s 1m 29.302s 1m 29.426s 1m 29.893s 1m 30.069s 1m 30.376s 1m 30.546s 1m 30.546s 1m 31.269s
1m 31.758s |
The Quotes
Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock also dismissed the speculation in which the Canadian is linked to a new team entering Formula One in 1999 with the funding of 250 million pounds by British American Tobacco using Reynard chassis: "We denied all this stuff in Brazil two weeks ago. This report is just off the pace. That's all there is to say about it. Nothing was happening then and it is the same thing here."