Despite his fastest time, Schumacher was unhappy with the handling of his Benetton, reporting more understeer than had been present in pre-event testing at the circuit.
Hill je bil drugi z zaostankom manj kot štirih stotink sekunde, sledili so še Alesi, Coulthard, Herbert in Berger, vseh šest dirkačev najboljših treh moštev v konstruktorskem prvenstvu.