De la Rosa fastest as testing ends

The McLaren test driver was just four hundredths of a second faster than Ferrari's tester Luca Badoer, with the two teams appearing as closely matched as they have been in recent races.

Mark Webber was an encouraging third fastest for Red Bull Racing, with Nick Heidfeld setting the fourth best time despite bringing one of the two red flags of the day out when he stopped out on track.

Nelson Piquet Jr. rounded out his three days of testing with Renault with the fifth fastest time, while Jenson Button continued the evaluation of new Honda concepts to set the sixth best time.

Although Rubens Barrichello had been upbeat about the new Honda parts, Button was not so convinced.

"I cannot tell you much really," said the Briton. "We don't know exactly what we are taking (to Fuji). At the moment we are just collecting data, so we have to see how it goes."

Jarno Trulli was seventh, while Sebastian Vettel was eighth fastest after causing the second flag when he ran off the circuit.

Today's times:

Pos  Driver        Team                     Time      Laps
 1.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:19.617   68
 2.  Badoer        Ferrari             (B)  1:19.656   68
 3.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:20.067   42
 4.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber          (B)  1:20.184   94
 5.  Piquet        Renault             (B)  1:20.655  120
 6.  Button        Honda               (B)  1:20.831   66
 7.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:21.621   77
 8.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:21.626   82
 9.  Rossiter      Honda               (B)  1:21.663   39
10.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:22.148   57

All Timing Unofficial