Zonta immediately goes onto the track, followed by Fisichella (Benetton) and Mazzacane (Minardi)
Heavy rainclouds gathering.
Zonta completes lap - 1m17.134
Fisichella - 1m18.211
Mazzacane - 1m18.803
Jos Verstappen (Arrows) goes quickest in second sector
1.05pm (local time)
Fisichella goes quickest - 1m16.066
Barrichello (Ferrari) and Button (Williams) out onto the track
1.07pm (local time)
Barrichello has trouble with braking at several corners, but still goes second to Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) who has taken provisional pole - 1m14.955
Mazzacane stops out on the track.
Jarno Trulli (Jordan) spins off into a gravel trap. Yellow flags out.
1.10pm (local time)
Jacques Villeneuve (BAR) out on the track - 7th overall, 1m17.009
Mika Hakkinen (McLaren) on the track
Trulli reaches the pits on foot.
Nick Heidfeld attempts a quick lap - 9th overall, 1m17.112
Light rain starts to fall.
Hakkinen takes provisional pole - 1m14.434, despite missing the apex at turn 4.
David Coulthard (McLaren) 2nd - 1m14.924
Jenson Button (Williams) on the track. 12th overall, 1m16.870
1.15pm local time
Diniz's (Sauber) rear wing breaks. Jacques Villeneuve spins off.
Jenson Button goes 4th. 1m15.680
Fisichella makes a mistake and spoils his fast lap.
Jenson Button goes quicker still.
Both Ferraris back out onto the track in tandem
1.18pm (local time)
Order Hakkinen, Coulthard, Schumacher, Fisichella, Button, Zonta
Schumacher spins off at turn three, bringing yellow flags out as Barrichello passes - Rubens has to back off.
Barrichello takes 2nd provisionally, 1m14.636
1.20pm (local time)
Michael Schumacher drives back to the pits - and is wheeled back into his garage
Rain starts to fall heavily.
Ralf Schumacher (Williams) finishes his lap, compromised by the rain, 1m15.952 - 10th overall
Jarno Trulli is as yet the only car not to complete a time - the spare Jordan has a throttle problem
1m24pm (local time)
Marc Gene (Minardi) takes a trip onto the grass, and comes into the pits
1.27pm (local time)
Eddie Irvine (Jaguar) goes 6th, 1m15.425
Jarno Trulli sets a lap quick enough to qualify - he is 13th, 1m16.066
1.29pm local time
Session is red flagged due to red flagged due to an advertising hoarding falling down in the pitlane.
1.35pm (local time)
Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard and Hakkinen all on fast laps
Hakkinen nearly 0.3seconds faster in the first sector.
Lap is 1m14.111, extending provisional pole
Michael Schumacher starts his fast lap, but is already 0.4 seconds down after the firt split.
Schumacher goes second, 1m14.508
1.40p(local time)
David Coulthard goes second ahead of Schumacher - 1m14.374
Coulthard completes his next lap, quicker but not enough to move up
Red flags out again - the rest of the hoarding has fallen down
Classification - Hakkinen, Coulthard, Schumacher, Barrichello, Fisichella, Irvine, Frentzen, Button, Zonta, Trulli, Wurz, Verstappen, Alesi, R Schumacher, De La Rosa, Herbert, Gene, Villeneuve, Heidfeld, Diniz, Mazzacane, Salo
1.51pm (local time)
Cars back out onto the track after session is green-flagged.
Herbert starts a lap, but is 0.6 off Hakkinen after the first sector
Herbert still 16th, but quicker - 1m16.250
Ralf Schumacher starts another lap, but is still slower than Button
1.55pm (local time)
Ralf Schumacher moves from 14th to 10th - 1m15.561
Barrichello back onto the track
Villeneuve goes 9th, 0.01 seconds faster than his team mate Zonta
Villeneuve starts another lap
Barrichello goes faster than he has to date in the first sector
Red flags yet again - an advertising hoarding falls off and Alesi's car hits it
Barrichello aborts his lap due to the red flags
Rain begins to pour, freezing the session times where they stand.
2.21pm local time
Session starts again. Barrichello onto the track, as is Button on dry tyres
Hakkinen comes out, and begins to push very hard - 1m25.492
Session flagged complete
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