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Schumacher leads Austria GP qualifying
World champion Michael Schumacher led a dominant Ferrari one-two on Friday in the first qualifying session for Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix.
- Indo-Asian News Service
- Updated: February 25, 2007 08:48 AM IST
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World champion Michael Schumacher led a dominant Ferrari one-two today in the first qualifying session for Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix, the sixth race of the world championship. Schumacher, who gave the new F2003-GA machine a winning debut at the last race in Barcelona, finished more than half a second faster than Ferrari's closest rival, Mark Webber of Jaguar. The German went out second in the session and controlled a last corner slide to set a time of 1min 07.908 secs and beat last year's pole time of 1:08.082. His time was 0.279 secs faster than that of his Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello, who finished second, and 0.604 secs faster than Australian Webber. Canadian Jacques Villeneuve finished fourth in a BAR-Honda after beating his fifth-placed British teammate Jenson Button by little more than a tenth of a second. Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya, whose Williams-BMW teammate Ralf Schumacher spun off during his one-lap run, finished sixth, with Scot David Coulthard seventh for McLaren-Mercedes, but more than a second slower than the lead Ferrari. Coulthard's teammate Kimi Raikkonen finished eighth, with Webber's teammate Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia and Italian Giancarlo Fisichella of Jordan completing the top ten. (PTI)Topics mentioned in this article
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