00:00And because in South Africa that's Michael Andretti who has not had the best of luck to put it mildly in Grand Prix this year
00:08because he stalled in South Africa and he had that colossal crash to start in Brazil
00:15and his father, the great Mario Andretti, who won the first IndyCar Oval race of 1993 at Phoenix last weekend
00:24flew in yesterday to give support to his son.
00:27And Michael Andretti this morning in the McLaren Ford was 7th quickest.
00:37And the order at the present moment, and we are now in this one hour session, 27, 28 minutes into it, nearly half distance, half time.
00:46Crossed his fastest, Schumacher is some 1.8 seconds slower, Etta Sena as you can see is 3rd fastest.
00:53Karl Wendlinger and Vlato, marvellous for the new Sauber team, 4th and 5th, and Gerhard Berger much better in the Ferrari than they have been in the previous two races this year.
01:03The Ferrari people have been working hard on their active suspension and they are slowly, too slowly for Berger and Elisa their drivers, but nevertheless getting it right.
01:13Andretti into the crater curves and up towards McLaren.
01:15I caught a puff of smoke there from the back of Andretti's McLaren as he was going into the crater curves.
01:22He's changing gear, I hope that's nothing ominous for him, whoops, whoops.
01:27Andretti gets over the kerb, loses it, but doesn't hang around.
01:34Pointing straight.
01:36James, do you think the tension might be getting to Michael Andretti?
01:41After all there's an enormous amount of pressure on him, he had a bad race in South Africa, he had an even worse one in Brazil.
01:47There are rumours, rumours, rumours, I emphasise, that Senna might have signed for the whole season.
01:53In which case Mick Hakenen is waiting in the wings to take Michael Andretti's place.
01:59Well, certainly the pressure is on Michael, because he has clearly got to perform better than he's done so far,
02:07because apart from his, and there he is going to the pits, probably he'll have to have the undertray checked out,
02:13because he curbed it quite hard, we get a replay there of the culmination of that,
02:19but it was getting across the kerb that will have done the damage, may have flat-spotted the tyres a little bit,
02:25but anyway, it's only qualifying, so no great harm done, but certainly the pressure, that's...
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