Schumacher fastest as Ferrari’s dominate qualifying

WORLD champion Michael Schumacher led a dominant Ferrari one-two yesterday in the first qualifying session for Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, the sixth race of the world championship.

Schumacher, who gave the new F2003-GA machine a winning debut at the last race in Barcelona, finished more than half a second faster than Ferrari’s closest rival, Mark Webber of Jaguar.

The German went out second in the session and controlled a last corner slide to set a time of 1min 07.908secs and beat last year’s pole time of 1:08.082.