Renault's pace slowering on Saturday!

By role
July 19 2003

The Renault F1 team is experiencing a tougher Saturday after their good fortunes yesterday. In yesterday's qualifying Alonso finished 4th and Trulli 6th to show the good pace of the upgraded Renault R23.

However, today, it was different story with Trulli finishing 7th and Alonso 9th on the free practices ahead of today's qualifying session.

The fastest time was set by Juan Pablo Montoya that went 0.1 seconds faster than the Ferrari of Rubens Barrichello. Michael Schumacher improved his form of yesterday and finished 3rd ahead of his brother Ralf with the other William BMW.

Olivier Panis showed the improvement of his team by finishing 5th ahead of David Coulthard.