Prost clocked a record qualifying lap time of one minute 21.179 seconds to eclipse the best efforts of team mate Damon Hill, and must now be a warm favourite to seal his fourth world drivers' title with victory tomorrow. BNCB
A proprietary software engine logs 45 separate runs and stores 90 lap times, lap numbers, split times and the fastest laptime. Google
Hakkinen again sets the fastest laptime, improving on his previous best to one minute 39.1 seconds with a 2.9 second lead over Schumacher. Google