Barca 3: Schuey stars

Schuey was just under two seconds quicker than anyone else and kept on running to the end of the day, though most of the quicker times were set in the morning.

Fernando Alonso put a few more miles on Renault's new Imola-spec engine and set the second best time, while Rubens Barrichello was third best in the second Ferrari.

Jenson Button had a new Imola-spec Honda engine in the BAR and was fourth fastest. He handed the car over to Takuma Sato in the afternoon. The Japanese had to cope with the worst of the conditions, went off on his first run and then had the new engine blow on his second.

Alex Wurz and David Coulthard put in the laps diligently in the two McLarens to wind up fifth and sixth best, ahead of Jarno Trulli, who only ran 22 laps in the Renault.

Ralf Schumacher racked up 62 laps and a spin in the Williams, putting in the eighth best lap, ahead of Felipe Massa in the Sauber who had technical problems on the Sauber in the morning and didn't run in the afternoon.

Scott Dixon continued to turn in valuable mileage in Williams, completing more laps (66) than anyone else. By contrast Toyota's Cristiano da Matta (in the new re-packaged car) and Ricardo Zonta only did 42 laps between them. Jaguar's Bjorn Wirdheim (16 laps) and Williams' Marc Gene (five laps) also stayed mostly in the pits.

Michael Schumacher Ferrari B 1m23.764s 51
Fernando Alonso Renault M 1m25.650s 40
Rubens Barrichello Ferrari B 1m25.923s 29
Jenson Button BAR-Honda M 1m26.140s 36
Alexander Wurz McLaren-Mercedes M 1m26.162s 56
David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes M 1m26.392s 51
Jarno Trulli Renault M 1m26.966s 22
Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW M 1m27.028s 62
Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas B 1m28.174s 24
Scott Dixon Williams-BMW M 1m28.318s 66
Cristiano da Matta Toyota M 1m28.457s 24
Ricardo Zonta Toyota M 1m29.372s 18
Takuma Sato BAR-Honda M 1m30.535s 5
Bjorn Wirdheim Jaguar M 1m31.444s 16
Marc Gene Williams-BMW No time 5