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To: X Y Zebra who started this subject	7/10/2004 10:58:45 AM
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Raikkonen Takes First Pole of the Season - Britain Saturday July 10th, 2004 By Will Gray Finn Kimi Raikkonen claimed McLaren-Mercedes' first pole position of the season as he produced a remarkable recovery to top the qualifying times for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Saturday. Raikkonen, who was quickest in the two morning practice sessions in McLaren's new MP4-19B car, brightened McLaren's miserable season with the third pole of his career. The result bettered his fourth place start at the Nurburgring this season and the team's best grid position when David Coulthard started from third in France last weekend. Raikkonen was four-tenths down on Rubens Barrichello after the first sector but made up time over the final two-thirds of the lap to take pole from Barrichello by 0.072 seconds. Last year's Silverstone race winner Barrichello had looked set to take pole only to be denied by Raikkonen, while home favourite Jenson Button took third place as the last man on track. Ferrari's Michael Schumacher begins from fourth place ahead of the quick-starting Renaults of Jarno Trulli and Fernando Alonso and McLaren's David Coulthard. Juan Pablo Montoya of Williams-BMW, BAR-Honda driver Takuma Sato and Jaguar's Mark Webber completed the top-ten. Sauber's Giancarlo Fisichella, who was due to receive a 10-place punishment on after an engine change on Friday, spun in the first session and abandoned his lap and then opted against going out in the grid-deciding session. Schumacher put his Ferrari on provisional pole as the seventh man on track before team-mate Barrichello went four-tenths of a second quicker to take top spot. The first qualifying session and turned into a game of cat-and-mouse as drivers deliberately posted slow laps times to run early in the second hour with rain expected to arrive. Ferrari duo Schumacher and Barrichello had ran early in the crucial qualifying session after both made mistakes during the first session.

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