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Practice usually gives us a good impression about race pace. If that is the case as well in Monaco, we can easily expect a McLaren victory! The silver-black arrows were well ahead of the rest, with only a hundredth of a second between the two team drivers.
The skill and brilliance of Michael Schumacher kept him at "only" 0.35s which was still half a second faster than compatriot Heinz-Harald Frentzen and team mate Eddie Irvine. All others were well behind, at over a second from the McLaren duo.
Notable performance was there by Alex Zanardi, who outpaced team mate Ralf Schumacher by half a second. Giancarlo Fisichella who's still waiting on his first points of the season, had 0.7s on team mate Alex Wurz.
Between the two rookies at Minardi there was even a bigger gap, with Daniel Marzec (12th) going one second faster than team mate Marc Gené (17th). But the largest gap between team mates was at Prost with Olivier Panis going 1.2 seconds faster than Jarno Trulli.