 Four practice sessions was held before the Sunday race — two on Friday from 11 : 00 to 12 : 00 and 13 : 00 to 14 : 00 CEST ( UTC + 2 ) , and two on Saturday morning held from 09 @.@ 00 to 09 @.@ 45 and from 10 @.@ 15 to 11 @.@ 00 CEST . In the first two practice sessions , Prost driver Olivier Panis set the fastest time with a lap of 1 minute and 22 @.@ 735 seconds , one @-@ tenths of a second faster than Arrows driver Damon Hill . Villeneuve and Rubens Barrichello were third and fourth . Mika Häkkinen and Coulthard , set the fifth and eighth @-@ fastest times respectively for McLaren ; they were separated by Frentzen and Alesi . Michael Schumacher and Ralf Schumacher completed the top ten . 
