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2002 Belgian Grand Prix 
First Saturday Practice Session  

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First Saturday Practice Session Report - Results

Michael Schumacher put in a stunning lap to top the timesheets of the first session today with his team-mate Rubens Barrichello in second but over 0.8 seconds behind. Kimi Raikkonen was 3rd ahead of team-mate David Coulthard while Ralf Schumacher was 5th ahead of his team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya.

Allan McNish was a surprise 7th especially given that his team-mate Mika Salo was 16th. The same goes for Panis as he ended up in 8th while Villeneuve was 18th.
As usual though for practice it is hard to read into the times as they could be on different fuel loads.

6 out of the top 10 were Michelin runners but given the gap Ferrari have over the rest, it appear that the Bridgestones are matching the Michelins under these conditions. The second session will give us a better idea of how competitive the Michelins are as the track warms up further and the teams start to reduce their fuel loads.

There were no major incident during the session however both the Minardis stopped on the track with Webber losing most of the session while Davidson stopped towards the end of the session.

Olivier Panis covered the most number of laps with 13 while Kimi Raikkonen only covered 5 laps, Mark Webber only did 6 laps and Michael Schumacher only 7 laps.

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