ITALY: SCOT DAVID COULTHARD GRABS POLE POSITION FOR THE SAN MARINO FORMULA ONE GRAND PRIX

Record ID: 975129

  • Title: ITALY: SCOT DAVID COULTHARD GRABS POLE POSITION FOR THE SAN MARINO FORMULA ONE GRAND PRIX
  • Date: 14th April 2001
  • Summary: IMOLA, ITALY (APRIL 14, 2001) SOURCE: FOM - SEE ABOVE FOR FULL RESTRICTIONS 1. AERIAL CIRCUIT 2. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER SETS EARLY PACE 3. ON-BOARD JARNO TRULLI 4. MIKA HAKKINEN SETS FASTEST TIME 5. MIKA HAKKINEN'S WIFE, ERJA 6. RUBENS BARRICHELLO ON TRACK 7. DAVID COULTHARD OUT OF PITS 8. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER ON TRACK, MAKES MISTAKE 9. DAVID COULTHARD TAKES POLE POSITION WITH TIME OF 1:23.054 10. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER ON TRACK 11. MIKA HAKKINEN, SECOND ON GRID 12. RALF SCHUMACHER ON TRACK 13. AREIAL PIT LANE 14. COULTHARD SITTING IN CAR 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID COULTHARD SPEAKING: "We had some problems in the morning session which took a while for the car to get sorted for the start of the session. Anyways, the guys worked very hard, they were up until 4 o'clock last night building another car and I think they've done so it's a suprise but I'm delighted to get the pole position and I'm putting it down to the glasses because I saw Mika wearing his blue ones last week so I thought I ought to go for orange this week." (DAVID REMOVES GLASSES) 16. MIKA HAKKINEN SITTING IN CAR 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIKA HAKKINEN SPEAKING: "It's very simple ... because we are teammates it's nice that David got the pole, and there have been many cases when I've been in front of David so this time was good I let him be there (DAVID SAYS 'YOU'RE SUCH A GOOD SPORT' TO MIKA), CAMERA PULLS OUT TO SEE DAVID COULTHARD SITTING NEXT TO HIM, BOTH DRIVERS LAUGHING 18. RALF SCHUMACHER BACKED INTO PITS 19. (SOUNDBITE) (English) RALF SCHUMACHER SPEAKING: "Well to be honest I didn't expect us to be that quick. We had several problems, especially in the rain as you saw, we struggled, we hoped to be dry, and the Michelin is known that it works better under hot circumstances with a lot of rubber. We didn't have the right conditions but even then we seemed to get it right.BMW supplied us with another great engine, we changed quite a few things on the car overnight and the tyres seemed to work as well in qualifying." 20. MIKA HAKKINEN 21. MIKA HAKKINEN'S WIFE ERJA 22. HAKINEN GETS OUT OF CAR 23. COULTHARD IN CAR 24. AERIAL TRUCKS IN PADDOCK 25. MICHAEL WATCHING MONITOR 26. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER GETS INTO CAR 27. FERRARI TECHNICAL DIRECTOR JEAN TODT IN PIT LANE 28. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER IN CAR 29. RUBENS BARRICHELLO'S PIT BOARD 30. BARRICHELLO IN GARAGE 31. AERIAL BACKED INTO GARAGE 32. JARNO TRULLI IN CAR 33. GIANCARLO FISICHELLA Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: IMOLA, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA3L3KH4F3Z7KHQ9WFEZHA09Y6W
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