Villeneuve pushed back to 9th on grid
Jacques Villeneuve has lost a position and will now start from ninth on the grid for the European Grand Prix. Following qualifying stewards decided he had impeded the progress of Giancarlo Fisichella on the Italian's flying lap. Stewards at the German Nurburgring circuit decided that Villeneuve held Fisichella up on his flying lap though accepted it was not deliberate.