Qualifying: Hakkinen snatches pole

Michael Schumacher had been fastest for much of the qualifying hour in the Ferrari's spare car, having damaged his own car in practice.

But, the World Champion put in a flying lap in the last minute to pip Schumacher. Afterwards, Hakkinen said, 'It was a brilliant end to the session, a great effort from all the team.'

David Coulthard moved up to third at the death, and is joined on the second row of the grid by Eddie Irvine.

Top six:

M Hakkinen - 1.20.547

M Schumacher - 1.20.611

D Coulthard - 1.20.956

E Irvine - 1.21.011

R Barrichello - 1.21.530

Full qualifying results to follow.

Qualifying Session minute-by-minute

Weather - Sunshine

Track - Dry

Track temp - 34


Coulthard into third.

1min: Hill breaks down.
Hakkinen takes pole - 1.20.547.

2mins: Hakkinen out.
M Schumacher out.

5mins: Gene crashes at swimming pool. Yellow flags out.

8mins: M Schumacher pits.

9mins: Barrichello up to fourth - 1.21.530.

10mins: Coulthard into fifth - 1.21.581.
Irvine into second - 1.21.011

13mins: Villeneuve into eighth place - 1.21.859.

14mins: Hill, struggling in 17th place, pits.

15mins: Top six - M Schumacher, Hakkinen, Irvine, Frentzen, Trulli, Barrichello.
Trulli into spare car.

18mins: Trulli off.

21mins: Hakkinen up to second - 1.21.126.

22mins: Hakkinen out.

23mins: Schumacher touches wall before tunnel, but flying. Beats his own best time by half a second - 1.20.611.

24mins: Hakkinen preparing to rejoin. M Schumacher out.

26mins: Trulli takes third - 1.21.769.

28mins: Frentzen takes fifth from Fisichella - 1.22.102.

29mins: Fisichella up to fifth from 22nd.

35mins: Hakkinen, M Schumacher, Coulthard, Frentzen in pits.

37mins: M Schumacher flying, sets fastest lap, quicker than he was in practice - 1.21.139.
Hakkinen up into second place - 1.21.856.
Coulthard third - 1.22.226.

40mins: Remainder of field all out except Jean Alesi (Sauber).

41mins: Jarno Trulli (Prost) and Giancarlo Fisichella (Benetton) out.

42mins: Barrichello fastest - 1.22.655.

43mins: Salo sets fastest lap - 1.23.507

45mins: Alex Zanardi (Williams), De la Rosa (Arrows), Alexander Wurz (Benetton), Rubens Barrichello (Stewart), Eddie Irvine (Ferrari), Mika Salo (BAR) out.

47mins: David Coulthard (McLaren) preparing to join.

49mins: Gene spins in tunnel after losing rear wing, loses wheel and crashes. Tora Takagi (Minardi) out.

50mins: Pedro Diniz (Sauber) out.

52mins: Villeneuve in.

54mins: Marc Gene (Minardi) out.

58 mins: Jacques Villeneuve (BAR) is first man out. Sets time of 1.23.763 on second lap.

60mins: Michael Schumacher has to qualify in Ferrari's spare car after damaging his during practice this morning.