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The Friday Qualifying session for Round 12 of the 2003 F1 season at Hockenheim.
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03:24cars into the stadium section more so more of the people at the track could see more of the action
03:30but by doing that with the long straights they used to run very low downforce schumacher just
03:35taking a tear off off of his visor there but now with a new configuration of the track they've
03:39slowed it down a lot the cars are running more downforce which has enabled them to put quicker
03:43times through that tight winding stadium section of the track about 15 to 20 percent quicker through
03:49that stadium section now than they used to be three years ago because of that down because
03:52that downforce about it yeah well he was uh also a second and a half quicker than he was this
03:56morning so he's no doubt fairly happy with that Kimi Raikkonen it was uh again way off the pace
04:08this morning compared to his teammate which is unusual for Raikkonen
04:16second in the world championship standards at the moment by only seven points
04:19but he's already cooking the mic on that first sector
04:27and looking at the uh you know tires have been playing such a major role over the last couple
04:33of years michelin have made such leaps and bounds in their performance this year over last
04:38i'm gonna lay out and listen to this engine i'll get back on that we don't have to lay out for a long way
04:42anyway but looking at the times this morning on the free practice it was pretty much david a 50-50
04:47split between michelin and bridgestone i think it was jensen button probably this guy right here
04:54that made the difference really if it wasn't for that would have an absolutely perfect split
04:58between michelin and the bridgestone tires and when you mean 50-50 you mean the top 50 percent
05:05we're all michelin and the bottom 50 we're all bridgestone really it's uh it was night and day
05:10black and white difference
05:14of course this is a mercedes-ben in fact this original track was built for mercedes as a test
05:20track so my uh Kimi Raikkonen there just over a tenth just under two tenths quicker than michael schumacher
05:26so the first mission shot car putting in a very good time there this track was built in 1929 and it
05:32was a mercedes test track it's changed a lot over the years but obviously mercedes very anxious to do
05:39well here uh in front of what would to them be a home crowd stuttgart not being very far away at all
05:47and mercedes always put a huge amount of effort to entertain the press
05:52the f1 journalists really get treated to a great couple of days before this event they get flown out
05:58early and uh shown around the factories around the mercedes factories and given test drives and
06:03the various cars that they want to put on the test tracks to really pump up the interest in mercedes
06:09here of course remember this german race is also the home race for bmw engines so we'll see a great
06:17titanic battle between mercedes and bmw at hockenheim
06:25there is one of the bmw powered cars montoya of course in the williams the fw25 chassis
06:33second two weeks ago in the british grand prix and i think he was second this morning in uh
06:39in the practice
06:40fifth this morning in practice but he's already quicker than kimmy raikkonen so
06:47aren't pablo doing well of course also very important for bmw to do well here as it is in the
06:53backyard of mercedes-benz but it's not that far from munich either no munich of course home of bmw remember
07:01this needling match really great rivalry between bmw and mercedes whenever bmw have a win the advertising
07:08in germany always says bmw engines made in germany of course which is a great knock at
07:14mercedes whose engines of course made by ilmore engineering in england yeah
07:18one pablo still maintaining his quicker pace in the second sector coming into the stadium there that
07:29great big stand on the left and he's gonna oh yes look oh big wow picked up a lot of time in the stadium
07:38so they must be carrying a lot of downfall because he picked up a huge amount of time in the stadium like
07:43you were saying yeah 23 dead david in that sector three for montoya and 23 60.6 of a second difference
07:51in the third sector alone right he was a tenth quick in the first sector dead even in the second and as
07:57you say six tenths in the stadium sector so uh bmw be very happy with that and of course ralph schumacher
08:05is about to take to the track his teammate if you're wondering what those sparks were underneath the car
08:10on these generation of cars running that uh skid block which shouldn't really spark and there is
08:16gerhard berger who i keep being told is no longer anything to do with bm with uh bmw but uh somebody
08:23obviously has not told he still seems to find plenty of time to go to the pits well those sparks coming
08:30from the underside of that uh non-ferrous plank material underneath the fia block is the tungsten uh
08:37skids that bolted underneath to keep the plank to the car the teams are allowed to use a certain
08:42amount and a very limited and very controlled size of skid underneath the car
08:51obviously what they've got to watch of course if you're running tungsten skids underneath that plank
08:55you're not being able to wear the plank away on the track surface and the reason for that plank to be
09:00there is to control the ride height so the more the plank wears the fia will measure the plank after
09:07the session if too much is worn away you will be excluded so have to control those skids underneath
09:13that ralph just a little bit slower than his teammate he won't be liking that in front of his home crowd
09:18german crowd oh picked up time there
09:41well you remember david won this race in 2001 which would have been the last race of course that the
09:47track was configured in what i always considered to be i'm sure you'll agree with that classic
09:51configuration of those two long straights so there is quickest in sector two and sector three
10:0035 dead in second second sector and 23 in the third sector so he picked up a lot of time as well
10:07this morning he was eight quickness this morning
10:09so things not looking good for bridgestone runners already and we're only uh what only four cars in
10:21and the top three are michelin by a fairly uh substance amount 14-4 for ralph schumacher a 15-4
10:29for his brother michael
10:30the ferrari still quickest car of the day so far through the speed track but you're you're absolutely
10:37right the michelin tires are really coming to the floor and people we've got to go yeah
10:44are alonso coultard truly weber all of whom were quicker than michael schumacher this morning
10:50uh so there's some fast goes to guy yeah fast guys to go
10:55who could easily be quicker rubens barrakello and the second fry takes to the track
11:13rubens barrakello who won the british grand prix a couple of weeks ago and unfortunately broke the
11:22trophy smashed the trophy smashed the trophy by accident at the airport well wow
11:30he is quick as you at 16.2 in the first sector
11:40but slow in the speech now
11:52well lost lost half a second in that sector
12:06so can rubens barrakello do it unlikely uh four so he beats his teammate michael schumacher but he's
12:27nearly a second slow up so as rubens barrakello takes a slow down lap we have a look at the big
12:32crowd on hand to watch the schumachers do well we'll be back with more provisional quality from
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12:55bmw welcome back to friday qualifying from the hockenheim ring
13:01fred alonso's on his warm-up so while we have a second let's take a look at the porsche track
13:062.842 miles around very flat 17 curves this of course is the new configuration brought out last
13:15year so we have a tremendous amount of turns here turn two out of the stadium used to be a quick
13:21long long run there but now you see three and four follow on quickly then five there's a long long
13:26left hander leading down to six some overtaking opportunity into six about the only real opportunity
13:31here seven eight nine no good for overtaking uh 12 very high speed entry into the stadium
13:39not much overtaking opportunity anywhere in the stadium and of course as uh steve said earlier 13 14 15 16
13:47and 17 all got more downpours now and 12 probably that uh makes these cars a lot quicker to the stadium
13:54and here is uh mr alonso about start he was also very quick this morning he was third quickest this morning
14:00at the 15 7.
14:01the renault chassis looked to be operating really well this morning
14:11jano truly at one point was quickest by over a second
14:16well alonso was very slow well taken to the track this morning he didn't get out until about 10 minutes
14:21before the end of that session a little bit slower in that first sector but he probably has not
14:28quite the top speed so 314 look at that 313 21 so he's seven kilometers slower down straight
14:36you have to be wary david of the speed track here just like we did a couple of weeks ago in silver
14:42styling because they set the speed trap right at the braking point going down into the spitz curve
14:49that tight hairpin and it can be very deceptive just as the drivers tap the brake how much speed
14:55the scrubs off the car really uh throw those straight lines speed track figures somewhat he's
15:04going to pick up time anywhere with this renault chassis it's going to be through the stadium yes
15:10certainly seems to have a great combination of downforce uh and low drag and good uh mechanical grip
15:15absolutely yeah jumps into third spot he's a little bit off the pace but still and all yeah
15:20yeah he's quicker than kimi ryker then
15:28matt simmons the chief engineer from uh renault was saying exactly that echoing exactly what you're
15:34saying there david that they think that the r23 chassis got good mechanical grip stroke great
15:40mechanical grip and it's also got terrific traction through the electronics on board as well so they are
15:46down on power we all know that but not significantly down on power like they were at the start of the
15:51season flavio's indication yeah you know not bad bad but that's where this car is really shining
15:59with its uh low drag great downforce very slippy uh chassis and a good grip out of those low speed corners
16:08uh david coulthard's on the track now you see the team look the brains trust looking on there ron dennis
16:15in the middle david coulthard of course was quickest this morning
16:20with a 15 523 which actually would uh would have him in about six spot now because everybody's gone a lot
16:26quicker during this provisional qualifying and david coulthard will probably be no exception but a little bit off
16:33there that time is uh well that time is only good enough for fifth at the moment
16:42another great job yeah
16:48there's that camera keeping up just that just looks like a bat in the corner of the screen doesn't it
17:03it looks like david coulthard is going to end up well probably uh
17:15duking it out here with uh michael schumacher for sixth spot
17:18wow so he is the slowest so far fastest this morning slowest this afternoon
17:37rumors in the british papers this week that david coulthard is going to be dropped by mclaren
17:42obviously big denials all around and there's going to be a major shuffle involving coulthard
17:47montoya and mark weber so we'll see how true those rumors are
17:53world hell
17:56i personally can't see that i don't see david coulthard leaving mclaren i don't think ron dennis
18:01really wants him to leave mclaren but
18:03he's such a good public figure yeah personal easy going good looking uh just everything that
18:13mercedes absolutely want a perfect role model for mercedes yeah and he'll never say no whatever
18:19mercedes want him to do for a pr stunt he'll do it jano truly take the track he was second quickest this
18:26morning but he was quick all morning so jano truly uh was very quickly qualifying two weeks ago in silverstone
18:37up there you go quicker not much but quicker and that's in that first sector if he's got if
18:45we got as we said before got that mechanical grip and the um the aerodynamic ratio between drag and
18:53down for us right he could be very quick in the uh in the last sector
19:13a little bit slower there but that time is equal to shoot ralph schumacher montoya and alonso in that
19:21second sector so he's still in with a shout here truly this truly could work oh just a little bubble
19:29there coming out onto the last corner here i was just going to say it might be able to outpace his
19:33teammate but i wonder if that time that little mistake compromising he did do it yeah 15-0-0-4 third
19:40place knocks his teammate alonso down to fourth just out does his teammate uh fred alonso so he ends up in
19:48third spot that makes uh flavia a little bit happier
19:56now let's have a look at this
19:59mark webber's up next and this is what happened to him this morning coming into the stadium for
20:04that turn 12 got a bit wide got onto the gravel he never seen so much suspension movement in the
20:09form of one car for a long time is that gets it back on the track without uh trying to
20:15pull it back to look at it i mean when you look at it in that view i mean it's a real flying job isn't it
20:20it is gravel and stuff flying at all directions yeah
20:24and of course flavio briatore is a manager of a lot of drivers out there one of whom is of course mark
20:34webber
20:42mark webber been one of the revelations of the season yes got a new teammate this week of course
20:48justin wilson his old formula 3000 teammate from uh three years ago
20:56very very of course keen rivals in formula 3000
21:03oh pretty good time there down but not much
21:07that also uh is one of the faster times to that first sector the only guy to beat it was rubis
21:12barry keller who had a dynamite first sector jaguar improved immensely this year yeah i think mark
21:20webber has certainly been a part of it he's obviously a great test driver gives a lot of good feedback
21:30they've had a lot of luck in the race this year but it it'll come
21:35yeah another good time there it's one of the best times in that sector so he could be he could be uh
21:46knocking on uh alonso's door yeah very easily 35-2 and pretty much neck and neck with alonso
21:54because it's probably got a little bit more power than the reno
21:57oh so he just pushes along though down the spot and there is his new teammate justin wilson
22:07and his brand new green overalls no doubt very happy and very pleased with the green as opposed to the black
22:14that's a very respectable time for mark webber and and the jaguar to say yeah they really have come
22:19on leaps and bounds there is a head-on shot from that r4
22:29the r3 last year's chassis was a complete disaster there's no doubt about that and what they were
22:34complaining about mainly other than the aerodynamics which they said basically we changed every component
22:39on the car not a lot of flex actually going into the rear wing on that chassis there they said they had
22:44a lot of chassis flex which is the absolute worst thing you can have in the monocoque itself you want
22:50the monocoque the carbon fiber chassis to be absolutely rigid with no flex front to rear in an
22:56ideal world you always get a little bit everything moves it depends to what degree but they said that
23:02last year's chassis the r3 used to flex an awful lot and of course that disrupts all the suspension
23:08settings on the car you cannot account for what the chassis is doing no jensen button
23:17he was uh fastest bridgestone running this morning david at p7 it was
23:23he was the only right exactly at p7 he was the only uh uh bridgestone runner in the top 10.
23:39pretty good top speed
23:44his first sector not great but it could well
23:52could still put him ahead of michael schumacher just
23:58and he bangs in a 16-5 in sector one ralph schumacher at the top of the timesheet was a 16-3 there
24:09i think he's headed for 35-5 sector two about average half of the course 35 dead though it was ralph
24:17would be about eighth or ninth i should think
24:2610th lost it all in that last sector so he ends up 10th there's david richards
24:32so as jensen but takes a cool down lap here at the hockenheim ring we'll take a quick break but we're back
24:41with more provisional qualifying from germany in just a minute so stay right here with us on speed
24:46well as giancarlo fisher keller takes to the track he's got to do his warm-up lap but we'll be right
24:56back before after a short break in german grand prix qualifying and we look at david
25:02coutard we'll be back to see all these first downs in just a minute
25:11welcome back to provisional qualifying from the hockenheim ring as
25:14giancarlo fisher keller trips the light start on his qualifying lap
25:19fairly uh adventurous through turn one down that new section three and four right and left
25:33i suspect fizzy keller and the jordan engineers will have trimmed a little bit of downforce off this car
25:40but already half a second off so at the moment fisher keller heading for a solid 11th spot on the
25:47lineup for tomorrow's qualifying there you see the camera streaking down to your left on the
25:52suspended on its wire
26:02of course with uh come up with some modifications for this
26:14race to try and pull get some more horsepower out of this engine to try and get the chassis moving
26:19along a little better very uh very slow second sector there
26:27it's very slow 39-1
26:32so as we said he'll be a solid 11th
26:35in the lineup for tomorrow's qualifying
26:41nines harold friends in the back to chip the light
26:45all the cars are even whoa getting a little bit wide on the exit there turn one
26:51nines harold of course determined to put on a good show in front of his home crowd
26:56one of the oldest drivers out there now
26:59olivier panis uh and francis both being 36
27:04francis was asked about retiring the other day he said no i don't have any intention of retiring yet
27:07i still enjoy my racing as soon as i don't enjoy it i'll retire
27:10but he can't be enjoying it like he could have been i imagine he uh
27:16career has been unfortunate to say the least i had a great run with williams there had some terrible
27:22luck and uh when leading some races and um things just haven't gone right before
27:27thanks harold well the other problem as well david it's not always down to the driver to decide
27:33when his career comes to a conclusion is it you know the uh the team principal signed those
27:38drivers to the contract and once their performance started to drop off all of a sudden you don't get asked to drive
27:43from her in the stadium sector this is a track that old heinz harold's been drumming on a lot in his career
27:51i'm sure from formula forward on up
27:56and he dripped to light so he takes that 11th spot away from fisher keller who now moves down to 12
28:05peter salva there not desperately happy with the way things are going this year
28:10great engines with that variety from last year but they haven't had much reliability out of it so they
28:14suspect on their insulation blue goes very wide
28:18so don't forget to join us tomorrow for coverage of the final round of qualifying for the german grand
28:31free coverage begins at 8 a.m eastern and as always you'll not miss a second of qualifying action
28:37again that's tomorrow at 8 a.m eastern only here on speed
28:49cristiano de marta he was sixth fastest this morning led the british grand prix two weeks ago much to
28:58everybody's when he got out of sync with his pit stops but still an all he had a very strong run back he
29:04locked up badly there going into turn three which could compromise that sector quite a bit
29:10yes running a low ride height there as well so those that's what we're talking about that's not the
29:16tungsten skid sparking that is just the plank material wearing off as the downforce on this car
29:23literally pushes itself into the tarmac
29:26his first sector not good at all i think that lock-up didn't help him one bit
29:36took him too deep and had to get off too long
29:40i suspect they've got this car set a little too low there again you see once that happens once the
29:46bottom of the car is dragging along the tarmac steering input starts to go away and if it gets
29:52too excessive really the car will just turn into a skateboard you have no steering input
29:56starts to suffer from a lot of understeer driver turns the wheel left or right the car just basically
30:03you know for one of a better term aquaplanes straight on surfboards along the tarmac and he
30:08does end up in 12th spot now at a 16-4 that's uh not as quick as he went this morning so he's one of the few
30:18people this afternoon not to have gone as quick as he did this morning yeah now let's have a look so
30:22if we can see there it is look that was a flash of uh spark from those skids underneath but i think
30:28they've just got the car set too low there should be no reason that they're they're running slower
30:34now than uh than this morning at all i mean this car really should be set up for absolute optimum
30:41qualifying lap remember the team is allowed to adjust and play with the car now right through the night
30:46until tomorrow so only after tomorrow the start of the qualifying session the team's not allowed to
30:51touch the thing until the race is flagged underway effectively so they're gonna have to do a lot of
30:57head scratching tonight i think basically lift the car up jack milner in the bm ah keep it going jack
31:09you gotta keep it going son remember this single lap qualifying you don't get a second stab of it
31:18no all right now if that was on saturday it would be pretty disastrous but really to a large extent
31:23david these times are fairly irrelevant yeah it all depends on the on the weather conditions for
31:30tomorrow but if it's going to stop like this and the forecast is well look at those that blue sky in the
31:34distance out it doesn't look like it's going to change not that's any reliable uh indicator but
31:39it certainly looks like a an absolutely gorgeous day here in central southern germany so
31:44villner has a big spin here that means he really all that means is he'll probably start tomorrow's
31:51uh qualifying for the race but not not such a bad thing look at well there he goes look
31:57boot room is barrochello barrochello exactly that ran like second or third and uh and go on the pole
32:12so the grand loop for monsieur villeneuve
32:18david richards jeff willis looking on jeff willis the aerodynamicist and technical director former guy with
32:24williams of course and former aerodynamicist with williams now has taken over the mantle of technical
32:30director at bar now olivier panis he wasn't very quick this morning he did well he was 10th the
32:37quicker he was slow with his teammate this morning but there's every chance of liby a panis will be
32:44no oh that's yeah that's villeneuve back into the pit lane after that so no time set so at the moment
32:51it's uh jack villeneuve yeah that's the fia official stopping the car
33:01there's panis as i said about to start his hot lap
33:15so have the toyota engineers reacted quick enough if these cars are carrying similar setups which i guess
33:24they will be and they've been able to lift that ride up a little bit to stop that plank wear and control the understeer
33:36they should have done they did have time to do it they changed ride height really to do it right to
33:40do it perfectly correctly well there it is again look to do it correctly and put it on the corner
33:44weight scales and make sure that the balance of the car on all four corners is the same it's about a five
33:49minute job you can do it very quickly by i just taking shims in and out of the push rods to lift and lower
33:54the ride height you can do it in about 30 seconds well that first sector he could displace uh even davy
34:02coultard depending on how he does in the next two sectors
34:13that also is a pretty good time 35-4 brings him off into exalted company
34:23he might even depending how he gets to the stadium he might even displace michael schumacher
34:32boy oh boy that is gross he he duffs up david coultard and slots in right behind michael schumacher
34:43so as olivier panis slows down coming out of the stadium and hockenheim we'll take a short break
34:48here on speed and we'll be back with more qualifying germany in just a minute
34:52provisional qualifying continues at the hockenheim ring in germany we're going to take a short break
35:02there you see the runners today nick heidfeld is about to take the track stay right here with us
35:06on speed for more action from the hockenheim
35:09welcome back to provisional qualifying from the hockenheim ring nick heidfeld just coming
35:21down to the hairpin on his hot lap
35:32nick heidfeld also anxious to do well in front of his home crowd
35:38through the sax curve
35:39no i'm sorry we're coming up to that coming to turn 12 this corner got a lot of people this morning
35:52this is the sax curve
35:56looking pretty good steering put looking very reasonable
35:59so uh he pushes down de marta fisher keller and of course milner there's fisher keller's teammate ralph
36:19firmant english blue big lock up there hopefully didn't drag him in there too deep into that ls
36:33that's what caught de marta out
36:3916 7. it's not the best time for that sector it's not the worst either that that could put him into uh
36:46very close touch with uh nick heidfeld
36:52see that heat haze coming off the tarmac david yeah all those ambitious engineers rubbing their hands
36:57exactly look at that blue sky a few clouds in the background there but
37:03the weather forecast for the weekend is great good throughout so which almost means it will rain for
37:09sure absolutely yeah i'm afraid that uh 36 to very even steam with his teammate fisher keller
37:20which is very encouraging for ralph firman who of course has nothing like to experience
37:24all the name that fisher keller has got but it's still not what you want is it on your debut year in
37:29formula one to be dragging around near the back no
37:34so there he is 15 just behind but quicker than fisher keller which of course is really good for him
37:45up next will be all things being equal joss verstappen
37:50and this morning joss verstappen also had trouble that turn 12 coming to the stadium but unlike the
37:55like the others instead of trying to just steer it through and keep he uh tried to pull it back
38:00on the track with the the usual consequence he should at this point just kept on the gravel but
38:05wanted to get back to the hard stuff and he did get back to the hard stuff but unfortunately
38:09sideways removing bits and pieces off the minardi on route
38:13it's very as you said david a lot of drivers caught out that this morning you can see them just trying
38:21to give a little bit of steering input to try to bring the thing back but as soon as it touches the
38:25gravel i think you've got to give it a free rein and let the car just drive itself through
38:29and off we go yes the loss
38:42they've still got trust on the car trust was a sponsorship was brought to by justin wilson
38:47and of course justin um no longer driving for bernardy now the jaguar driver will be seeing him up next
38:57down to the hairpin
39:08there you see the camera following out
39:13because trust is verstappen sponsor not wilson's
39:23yeah not a great first sector 69 sector one 36 two sector two paul stoddard the owner of minardi
39:37looking on there
39:42just hard to know with the budget that's available how to make the car significantly quicker you know it kind of
39:48takes your side doesn't it because what what can what can they do against the might of reno and
39:56ferrari and mclaren and mercedes
39:59bmws they're on an absolute shoestring just trying to get through from race to race they can't do any
40:05testing because they just simply haven't got the budget they haven't got any new components to try
40:09they're just trying to build reliability on the car and and keep pounding around and that has been
40:15minardi's philosophy since about 1986 yeah just keep going fine enough sponsorship enough money to keep going
40:24and of course not probably helped this year by the fact that they're on bridgestone which they're not
40:31having a great year either so the combination is almost too much
40:38well speed channel is your home for formula one and coming up on sunday we'll have live coverage
40:42of the german grand prix coverage begins at 7 30 a.m eastern with the accurate pre-race show
40:48peter winter will have all the latest news in the palette including an analysis of ferrari's pit
40:53stops at the british grand prix was such a disaster for schumacher again that's on sunday at 7 30 a.m
41:00only here on speed oh david here's your man justin wilson in the jaguar replacing antonio
41:08pisonia whose job was absolutely guaranteed safe until the end of the season stroke fired
41:12well a pretty quick first sector there obviously uh off a little bit off from his teammate but not much
41:21tony pernell and david pitchforth the two bosses of jaguar have defended their decision said look
41:28we think that fifth place in the constructors championship is a possibility but to do that
41:34to overturn bar we need two drivers in the car that are scoring points bisonia hadn't scored a point
41:40all season all jaguars points we're down to weber we need two drivers scoring points
41:47bisonia had to go well in the minds of jaguars management this could put him up there with
41:55rubens barrochello he could displace rubens barrochello depending how this last sector goes
42:00he does in fact take seventh spot wow i remember for justin wilson's first drive in the jack that is
42:11impressive to say the least he is two spots behind his teammate who's fourth then alonzo raikkonen and
42:17wilson wilson with a 15-3 73 as opposed to raikkonen's 15-2 and his teammate 15-0 so he's just three
42:25tenths of a second still in his teammate that's really pretty good this must be nicholas chiesa the
42:31newcomer another one obviously got a problem with his minardi there that is nicholas chiesa replacing
42:43justin wilson in the minardi team nicholas chiesa who we've been watching in formula 3000 won the
42:48monaco round if you remember somewhat luckily and of course this happened to justin wilson two weeks
42:54ago at silverstone he started off on his um on his lap and didn't complete it and it looks like the
43:01same things happened to nicholas chiesa in his formula one debut not a great way to start
43:06i'll tell you what justin wilson must be mighty pleased he is not sitting in that car and he is
43:13sitting in the r4 jack here come the minardi mechanics with the rear jack to recover
43:20a stranded car i guess uh oh wilson uh there paul start out looking girl what else could go wrong i
43:26expect you sinking but uh so as the field calms down after provisional qualifying is over we'll take a short
43:35break and we'll be back with more from germany in just a minute
43:45welcome back to provisional qualifying from the hockenheim ring in germ for the german grand prix
43:50qualifying is over and here are the results of this morning's run ralph schumacher is fastest
43:56to date at the 1 14 4 one pablo montoya's teammate second look at that truly webber mark webber having
44:02a grand run in the jag and fernando alonso fifth in the renault
44:08team ureikland six and look at that justin wilson seven yeah but look at that all the top seven
44:13runners michelin cars and there's the two bridgestone runners both the ferraris and then back again
44:18to michelin so really that hot weather playing straight into michelin's hands david kultad being
44:24a bit lacklustre that does it for our first hour of live coverage of the 2003 german grand prix weekend
44:28join us tomorrow at 8 a.m eastern for coverage of the final round of qualifying then at 10 30 we'll
44:33have live coverage of the eighth round of formula 3000 championship finally on sunday morning 7 30 a.m
44:38join us for live coverage of german grand prix starting with the acura free race show
44:41foe for steve matchup i'm david hobbs we'll see you tomorrow for final qualifying for the german
44:46grand prix from the hockenheim ring in southern germany see you tomorrow
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