spare Jaguar and aquaplaned on the start/finish straight. Alonso, ninth, was circumspect, as Frentzen, tenth. reported an adequate car balance. An incorrect setup put Da Matta 11th. The wet-weather conditions restricted Trulli to 12th and an unbalanced car in slow speed corners left Ralf Schumacher in 13th. An oversteer and lack of grip restricted Fisichella to 14th as Verstappen extracted additional performance from his car to finish in 15th. Heidfeld was circumspect through the Arquibancdas turn en route to 16th. Montoya in 17th lost control of the rear of his Williams under braking and went onto a concrete run-off area at Ferradura corner. Firman in 18th drove with the rear of Jordan's spare car attached to his race vehicle. Wilson avoided a spin on the start/finish straight and was 19th. Button was the only driver not to set a lap time: he had a sudden oversteer when he ran onto a damp white line denoting the track boundaries, and aquaplaned at almost . Button went through two polystyrene boards, removed his car's rear wing and abandoned the attempt. The session was temporarily stopped to clear on-track debris. The second qualifying session was held in warm and dry weather conditions. Barrichello had the lap time display on his steering wheel switched off so he could be focused. This earned him pole position, the first for a Brazilian driver at the track since Ayrton Senna in the 1994 event, his first since the 2002 Hungarian Grand Prix and the seventh of his career with a 1-minute and 13.807 seconds lap. Barrichello was joined on the grid's front row by Coulthard who was 0.11 seconds slower after McLaren changed his car's balance. Webber was set to take pole position until a driver error at Pinheirinho demoted him to third. A driver error at the same turn and a loose car left Räikkönen in fourth as Trulli moved to fifth. Excessive oversteer and circumspect braking restricted Ralf Schumacher to sixth. Michael Schumacher made a minor error at the Senna S chicane and was seventh; he took his lowest grid position since he started ninth at the 1998 German Grand Prix. Fisichella qualified eighth, Montoya had an oversteer that put him ninth and Alonso was tenth. Button set the 11th-fastest lap, with his teammate Villeneuve 13th after an intermittent loss of power in the Senna S chicane; Heidfeld in 12th separated the pair. Frentzen took