Austria Qualifying: That was different!

[Mr.S]

GO MIKA GO MIKA GO MIKA!!!! Look at that, 3/10ths faster than anybody. The Flying Finn has returned, maybe just for today but he is back!

Great job by Rubens! If only he and his car can stay together tomorrow he will be ok, just hope he finnishes ahead of Schumacher.

Zonta, good stuff. He out did JV! Damn that BAR is coming together nicely. A la Honda I think.

BURTI! BURTI! (rolls off the toungue nicley, love saying that name!) 21st, verry good on a new track and in a
jaguar!

THE GRID:
Place No. Driver Team Time Speed (kph)
1. 1. Hakkinen McLaren 1'10"410 221.184
2. 2. Coulthard McLaren 1'10"795 219.982
3. 4. Barrichello Ferrari 1'10"844 219.829
4. 3. Schumacher M Ferrari 1'11"046 219.204
5. 6. Trulli Jordan 1'11"640 217.387
6. 23. Zonta BAR 1'11"647 217.366
7. 22. Villeneuve BAR 1'11"649 217.360
8. 11. Fisichella Benetton 1'11"658 217.332
9. 17. Salo Sauber 1'11"761 217.020
10. 19. Verstappen Arrows 1'11"905 216.586
11. 16. Diniz Sauber 1'11"931 216.507
12. 18. de La Rosa Arrows 1'11"978 216.366
13. 15. Heidfeld Prost 1'12"037 216.189
14. 12. Wurz Benetton 1'12"038 216.186
15. 5. Frentzen Jordan 1'12"043 216.171
16. 8. Herbert Jaguar 1'12"238 215.587
17. 14. Alesi Prost 1'12"304 215.391
18. 10. Button Williams 1'12"337 215.292
19. 9. Schumacher R Williams 1'12"347 215.263
20. 20. Gene Minardi 1'12"722 214.153
21. 7. Burti Jaguar 1'12"822 213.858
22. 21. Mazzacane Minardi 1'13"419 212.119
Unofficial Times

Bad day for BMW and Williams, dont know why though. Just no speed.

[EERO]

Well, I'm happy to see Hakinnen apparently back on form. Perhaps the Doctor's orders were what he needed.

My concern is Frentzen who since Monaco has been outperformed by Trulli. It isn't the pace of the Hondas, given the BAR's performance and Trulli's as well.

Lets hope HHF gets out of this slump.

But despite Hakinnen's return to form, I'm still pulling for DC.

[Sharky]

Maybe what the teams need is to let their drivers rest between races and leave the testing for the test drivers. I mean, moth drivers that had vacations outqualifyied their teammates (Hak and Barichello).

[steve nielsen]

Good qualifying, it's o so close, the first 19 drivers are within 22 seconds, amazing!!, I hope it will be so close tomorow, and I also hope the Mac's and Ferrari's are closer to the rest of the field tomorow, I think it will be a great race, GO Jos Verstappen!!.

[ganda123]

I was watching and suddenly Murray cried, "Here comes Burti!". That was a bit of a laff really, for a split second I thought he meant Bertie and I thought, who the hell...?
Mika certainly proved everyone wrong didn't he, at a track where TGF didn't really seem to be happy with his set-up.
Go Jarno!!