Barcelona, day 2: Rubens tests F2002

The Brazilian completed 87 untroubled laps and was only second to McLaren tester Alexander Wurz who was driving a year-old car.

Barrichello said he was very happy with his first test. "There are so many things to learn," he said with plenty of enthusiasm. "I have to start with a clean sheet of paper."

The positive outcome of the test could influence Ferrari's choice of what car to take to next week's Barzilian Grand Prix. The team have used last year's F2001 in the first two races. World champion Michael Schumacher will take over from Barrichello tomorrow at Barcelona.

Ferrari test driver Luca Badoer set the third quickest time of the day in the new car, while Jordan, Williams, Jaguar, Sauber, British American Racing and Toyota also ran.

Like Ferrari, Jaguar are also using this test to evaluate their old and new cars. But Pedro de la Rosa only drove the troublesome new R3 today while last year's R2 remained in the garage. The team could switch back to using the R2 for the San Marino GP on the basis of what happens over the next two days in Spain.

Juan Pablo Montoya was only seventh fastest for Williams. The Colombian was carrying out set-up work for next month's Spanish GP at the circuit. This is the last F1 test at the track until then and Montoya will not test there again after today.

The bright and sunny day of testing was interrupted many times by red flags. But none of the spins which caused some of these proved serious.

Alexander Wurz McLaren-Mercedes MP4-16 1m18.667s 64
Rubens Barrichello Ferrari F2002 1m18.848s 87
Luca Badoer Ferrari F2002 1m19.214s 17
Jarno Trulli Jordan-Honda EJ12 1m19.751s 28
Luca Badoer Ferrari F2001 1m19.819s 90
Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW FW24 1m19.832s 67
Pedro de la Rosa Jaguar-Cosworth R3 1m19.982s 76
Marc Gene Williams-BMW FW23 1m20.751s 70
Takuma Sato Jordan-Honda EJ12 1m21.098s 67
Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas C21 1m21.667s 41
Anthony Davidson BAR-Honda 004 1m21.926s 45
Ryan Briscoe Toyota TF102 1m24.108s 55