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DC's 2001 McLaren Die Cast

2001 Hungarian Grand Prix 
Warm-up Session  

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Warm-up Session Report - Results

David Coulthard put in a stunning lap towards the end of the session to top the timesheets and setting a time that is over 0.4 seconds faster than the fastest time set by Pole setter Michael Schumacher. Yesterday after qualifying, Coulthard did indicate that he was more comfortable with his car with some fuel on board as against a very light fuel load as in the case during qualifying. Obviously not much can be read into the Warm-up times but it certainly appears that Michael and David are closely matched in race trim which should make for an exciting race.

Behind those two, Rubens Barrichello was third with Ralf Schumacher in 4th and Mika Hakkinen in 5th while Jarno Trulli continues his impressive form setting the 6th fastest time.
Nick Heidfeld is in 7th place while Olivier Panis is back in the top 10 after struggling with problems in Qualifying yesterday. Kimi Raikkonen is in 9th while Irvine makes the top 10.

There were no major incidents during the session but both Fisichella and Button appeared to be having problems. In fact Button ended up at the bottom of the timesheets almost 4.5 seconds off the pace.

Very similar to Qualifying, the midfield is very close with just 0.85 seconds separating Heidfeld in 7th and Fisichella in 15th.

Montoya, Frentzen and Verstappen covered the most number of laps with 17 each while Jenson Button covered the least with 8 while Fisichella only managed 11. David Coulthard also covered 11 laps possibly in an attempt to save his tyres for the race.
All other drivers covered between 12 and 16 laps.

As usual it is hard to draw conclusions from the Warm-up times but looking at the improvement that Coulthard has made compared to the Ferrari's while Hakkinen remained behind could indicate that Coulthard might be on a different strategy or will be running a lighter fuel load at the start. 

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