WilliamsF1 improves after 1st Saturday practice

Again it would be the Ferrari pair at the front. But at least the WilliamsF1 team had reduced the gap to around 0.5sec. for both Ralf and Juan Pablo. Fifth was McLaren's David Coulthard followed by Renault's Fernando Alonso.

Juan Pablo would have one moment at Turn twelve when he would run wide and slide across the grass to thankfully return to the track. Dr Mario Theissen said that the P84 had no restrictions in terms of the number of laps that they would put on the engine.

In a television interview test driver Marc Gene spoke of the fact that the track in several turns had become somewhat rougher, giving the impression that the FW26 was not coping very well with the bumps.