31st August - A productive day for Jordan.

Jordan Honda made a useful start to the weekend in Belgium when Jarno Trulli set second fastest time and Jean Alesi ninth at the end of the day which saw the Spa-Francorchamps track affected by a shower in the second free practice session.

"It's been a productive day," said Trulli. "We were able to test tyres and a lot of things on the car. We were able to do some laps in wet conditions. The car seems pretty good and I'm optimistic for tomorrow that we can get a result. The weather will be critical because I would prefer it to be one way or the other; not like today where the rain comes and goes just enough to make the track wet, and then it begins to dry out. When it was wet, I had some brake problems. I had too much brake balance on the rear and I spun twice."

"Today was important for me," said Alesi. "This was the first time I was able to drive the car in wet conditions. I'm really happy with what we learned today and now we have to work on getting the best set-up for qualifying and the race."

The first of the two 60-minute sessions was run in the dry but a short but heavy shower affected the second hour.
"Obviously it was a difficult day because of the weather,", said Trevor Foster, joint managing director. "It was slippery early on this morning and that caught a lot of people out. The cars were sliding, particularly at the rear, and I think it took teams a few runs to get that sorted and some drivers were caught out very badly. We had an inkling that the weather front was coming in so we decided to do the tyre evaluation this afternoon. We now have a very good indication of which way we want to go, so it's been a productive day. We had the opportunity to run both the intermediate and the wet weather tyres and everything looks okay. The drivers seem fairly happy with the balance and we now have to sift through the information we have gathered."

Times from Free Practice at Spa
Pos. Driver Team Tyre Time
1 M Schumacher Ferrari B 1:48.655
2 Trulli Jordan B 1:49.404
3 Barrichello Ferrari B 1:49.456
4 Fisichella Benetton M 1:50.192
5 Hakkinen McLaren B 1:50.239
6 Raikkonen Sauber B 1:50.495
9 Alesi Jordan B 1.51.631



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