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08-sep-2000
Friday Practice - Italian Grand Prix 2000 Season
An encouraging start for Jarno Trulli and steady progress for Heinz-Harald Frentzen summed up Jordan Grand Prix's efforts at the end of the first day of practice for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

'Everything went well,' said Trulli. 'We have done the job as planned, testing different things and getting positive results. The car is nicely balanced, just as good as it was in the test we had here last week. The track has improved a bit since then, which explains the faster times. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied.' Frentzen concentrated on running with a race set-up and a full fuel load.

'I stayed on race fuel all day and we were fine-tuning those settings,' said Heinz-Harald. 'We learned a lot during the test and those findings have paid off. So far so good but now we have to see what we can do during qualifying tomorrow.'

Barrichello was fastest all day, the Brazilian saying his Ferrari was working well. Both McLaren drivers had problems as Mika Hakkinen, fourth fastest, lost most of the morning session with clutch trouble and David Coulthard, fifth fastest, spun off early in the second session.

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Friday Practice
  Pos    Driver    Team    Time         
  1    Barrichello    Ferrari    1.25.057         
  2    M. Schumacher    Ferrari    1.25.117         
  3    Trulli    Benson & Hedges Jordan    1.25.390         
  4    Hakkinen    McLaren    1.25.553         
  5    Coulthard    McLaren    1.25.796         
  6    Irvine    Jaguar    1.25.907         
  7    De La Rosa    Arrows    1.25.912         
  8    Diniz    Sauber    1.25.981         
  9    Verstappen    Arrows    1.26.020         
  10    Salo    Sauber    1.26.293         
  11    Button    Williams    1.26.452         
  12    Herbert    Jaguar    1.26.634         
  13    Gene    Minardi    1.26.638         
  14    Frentzen    Benson & Hedges Jordan    1.26.763         
  15    Fisichella    Benetton    1.26.809         
  16    Villeneuve    BAR    1.26.906         
  17    Zonta    BAR    1.27.070         
  18    Wurz    Benetton    1.27.093         
  19    Heidfeld    Prost    1.27.135         
  20    Mazzacane    Minardi    1.27.468         
  21    R. Schumacher    Williams    1.27.852         
  22    Alesi    Prost    1.27.904         



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