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19-may-2000
Friday Practice - European Grand Prix 2000 Season
Trulli seventh and Frentzen fifteenth during the Friday free practice as the Benson and Hedges Jordan team look competitive at the Nürburgring.

The Benson and Hedges Jordan team did not focus on quick lap times but worked on race set up during the free practice sessions today. Trulli was seventh and Frentzen fifteenth. The overall feeling is good and the team feel confident and are looking competitive on this track.

Frentzen who got pole position last year will be looking to emulate this performance tomorrow in the qualifying session. “We worked to optimise the balance and did our homework to find a good race set up. On new tyres, at the start of the session, the car felt good, although I had a little understeer. The track was a little wet to start with but dried out later which was probably good practice since it might well be like that on Sunday,” commented Frentzen.

Jarno Trulli who is familiar with the Nürburgring from his F3 days said, “I feel we are more competitive here than in Barcelona. We did a good job today as we solved a problem which I had with understeer in the morning. It was unusual to have this problem as I never had understeer on my EJ10 before, but we made all the right set up changes and by the afternoon session we had found a good balance. I was in the top five for most of the session, but then we made a change on the car which was not right and I did not get out again to post a better time when the track was drying out. I think we should have a good weekend here.”

The T Car will be set up for Heinz-Harald Frentzen for tomorrow’s qualifying.

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European GP - Friday Practice
  Pos    Driver    Team    Time         
  1    Button    Williams    1.19.808         
  2    Wurz    Benetton    1.20.248         
  3    Hakkinen    McLaren    1.20.300         
  4    Coulthard    McLaren    1.20.507         
  5    M.Schumacher    Ferrari    1.20.519         
  6    R.Schumacher    Williams    1.20.548         
  7    Trulli    Benson & Hedges Jordan    1.20.609         
  8    Zonta    BAR    1.20.709         
  9    Heidfeld    Prost    1.20.751         
  10    Villeneuve    BAR    1.20.786         
  11    Gene    Minardi    1.20.801         
  12    Diniz    Sauber    1.20.850         
  13    Fisichella    Benetton    1.20.862         
  14    Barrichello    Ferrari    1.20.891         
  15    Frentzen    Benson & Hedges Jordan    1.20.992         
  16    Irvine    Jaguar    1.21.246         
  17    Herbert    Jaguar    1.21.323         
  18    Alesi    Prost    1.21.442         
  19    Verstappen    Arrows    1.21.655         
  20    De La Rossa    Arrows    1.21.659         
  21    Mazzacane    Minardi    1.22.135         
  22    Salo    Sauber    1.22.161         



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