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My race was done in the first lap. I had a good start and made up some positions, when halfway down the lap Jarno Trulli ran into me from behind. He was out while I spun off the track. I had damage and a flat rear tyre. I managed to get back to the pit lane and to save the wheel, but I was already too far behind. In the end I finished last 30 seconds behind Toranosuke Takagi, two laps down on the race winner.
I had another hairy moment, coming out of the pit lane. Heinz-Harald Frentzen overtook me on the racing line, while Mika Häkkinen tried to take the inside line. All three of us suffered damage, even more than I had before.
A positive was the race pace towards the end, where I came back to lap times which at that time was good enough to keep up with guys in the Top 10. We will take that, when we move to our team's home race which is on Imola.