Fired-up Irvine dominates testing
On the final day of testing at Magny-Cours, Eddie Irvine was quickest by over a second in his Ferrari
The Irishman has looked especially determined in 1999 and he maintained that form in the test. David Coulthard was next up, ahead of Michael Schumacher. The latter suffered an engine failure towards the end of the day.
Johnny Herbert was 4th quickest for Stewart and extremely happy with the work the team had done in preparation for next weekend's French Grand Prix. He was concentrating on qualifying set-ups.
Only Arrows and Minardi missed the test. The latter will run at Varano in Italy later in the week, with test driver Gaston Mazzacane working on straightline speed there. Arrows don't plan to test before the next race and will just have brief shakedown run at Santa Pod before flying out to France.
Testing times from final day at Magny-Cours:
|
1 |
Eddie Irvine |
Ferrari |
1m15.981s |
|
2 |
David Coulthard |
McLaren-Mercedes |
1m17.171s |
|
3 |
Michael Schumacher |
Ferrari |
1m17.243s |
|
4 |
Johnny Herbert |
Stewart-Ford |
1m17.665s |
|
5 |
Ralf Schumacher |
Williams-Supertec |
1m17.699s |
|
6 |
Mika Hakkinen |
McLaren-Mercedes |
1m17.927s |
|
7 |
Giancarlo Fisichella |
Benetton-Playlife |
1m18.066s |
|
8 |
Damon Hill |
Jordan-Mugen Honda |
1m18.270s |
|
9 |
Jarno Trulli |
Prost-Peugeot |
1m18.306s |
|
10 |
Alex Wurz |
Benetton-Playlife |
1m18.334s |
|
11 |
Olivier Panis |
Prost-Peugeot |
1m18.630s |
|
12 |
Jacques Villeneuve |
BAR-Supertec |
1m18.730s |
|
13 |
Jean Alesi |
Sauber-Petronas |
1m18.776s |
|
14 |
Alex Zanardi |
Williams-Supertec |
1m18.825s |
|
15 |
Pedro Diniz |
Sauber-Petronas |
1m18.994s |
|
16 |
Ricardo Zonta |
BAR-Supertec |
1m19.308s |
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