AIDA, JAPAN - (Courtesy Marlboro Sports Data System)
Results of the Second Qualifying Session (ONLY) for Sunday's Pacific
Grand Prix, round two of the FIA Formula One World Championship
series:

       CAR                                      BEST LAP       AVERAGE
 POS.  NO. DRIVER             CAR DESCRIPTION     TIME    LAP   SPEED
 ----  --- ------             ---------------   --------- ---  -------
    1  0   HILL               WIL/REN            1'12.048   5  185.027 km/h
    2  28  BERGER             FER                1'12.184  11  184.678
    3  9   FITTIPALDI         FOO/FO             1'12.444  11  184.015
    4  6   VERSTAPPEN         BEN/FO             1'12.681  11  183.415
    5  4   BLUNDELL           TYR/YAM            1'12.751  10  183.239
    6  30  FRENTZEN           SAU/MER            1'12.797  12  183.123
    7  24  ALBORETO           MIN/FO             1'13.016   9  182.574
    8  10  MORBIDELLI         FOO/FO             1'13.090  11  182.389
    9  14  BARRICHELLO        JOR/HA             1'13.172   2  182.184
   10  3   KATAYAMA           TYR/YAM            1'13.411  11  181.591
   11  20  COMAS              LAR/FO             1'13.550  10  181.248
   12  23  MARTINI            MIN/FO             1'13.756  11  180.742
   13  15  SUZUKI             JOR/HA             1'13.932  11  180.312
   14  29  WENDLINGER         SAU/MER            1'14.163  10  179.750
   15  25  BERNARD            LIG/REN            1'14.204   7  179.651
   16  19  BERETTA            LAR/FO             1'14.271   8  179.489
   17  12  HERBERT            LOT/MUG            1'14.424   9  179.120
   18  26  PANIS              LIG/REN            1'14.667   7  178.537
   19  31  BRABHAM            SIMT/FO            1'14.748  11  178.343
   20  11  LAMY               LOT/MUG            1'16.146   8  175.069
   21  32  RATZENBERGER       SIMT/FO            1'16.356   7  174.587
   22  33  BELMONDO           PAC/ILM            1'17.450   7  172.121
   23  34  GACHOT             PAC/ILM            1'18.571   5  169.666
   24  2   SENNA              WIL/REN            1'19.304   4  168.097
   25  27  LARINI             FER                5'32.428   2   40.101

               Afternoon Marlboro News Service

PACIFIC GRAND PRIX                   SATURDAY, FINAL QUALIFYING.

Senna holds his pole.

Despite a spin while trying for a quick lap on his first set of tyres,
slower track conditions to-day ensured that Ayrton Senna retained his
pole position for the Williams-Renault team. Damon Hill, who spun in
exactly the same place as Senna, was the quickest driver of the session,
but 1,5 seconds slower than his previous time set on Friday.

Schumacher sharing the front row.

"I would rather be second on the grid and first in the race," said
Michael Schumacher who after one exploratory lap with his Benetton-Ford,
decided to return to the pits and save his tyres for the race. Jos
Verstappen tried to improve upon his tenth place, but was unable to
match his friday time despite the fact that he thought his car was
handling better.

Marlboro-McLarens stay in the pits.

Both Mika Hakkinen and Martin Brundle elected to save their precious
tyres for the race and not even take part in the final qualifying
session when they could see that the times were slower because of the
conditions. "Tyres tactics are going to play a big part in the race
tomorrow and I wanted to save new ones for the race," said Brundle.

No change for Ferrari.

"The track was just too slippery at the end and too hot at the start
to go any quicker than Friday," said Gerhard Berger who retained the
fifth fastest time for ferrari. Nicola Larini thought he could have
improved , but on his first lap out of the pits his car was hit by Ukyo
Katayama when he spun trying to pass the Ferrari. "We repaired the bent
suspension , but the impact had also damaged the transmission and I
could not run."

Fittipaldi impressive in the heat.

There was mixed emotion from Christian Fittipaldi after the practice.
Despite the slower conditions he improved an impressive six places. "If
it had not been for the fuel pump problem yesterday I could have made
the top 6 ," said Christian who ended up in ninth place.

In brief.... Neither Pacific made the race after more engine problems.
Paul Belmondo, who could not improve in the conditions gave his car to
Bertrand Gachot , but he also failed to make the cut. David Brabham spun
the Simtek coming onto the pit straight. Damage to the sump spread oil
around the rest of the circuit further spoiling chances of faster times.
Olivier Beretta spun off on Brabham's oil.