The first free practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix ran according to plan overall for Jordan, although the session was stopped for more than ten minutes after Jacques Villeneuve crashed his BAR.  Gary Anderson, Jordan's Director of Race and Test Engineering said, "We have been running race fuel loads and checking tyre durability this morning.  We have a small balance problem to fix, but nothing major.  There was also a little bit of movement with Takuma's steering rack, so we are changing that for the second session."