Free practice 3: Schuey takes over

Schumacher was unchallenged at the head of the times from the minute he stopped the clock at 1m21.685s after his first flying lap. Although he went on to better that time by almost a second, such was Ferrari's advantage that only Barrichello could match the champion's opening mark.

After missing the whole of yesterday's running, it was no surprise to see both Arrows drivers on track right from the off, but what did come as a shock was the pace of Heinz-Harald Frentzen. The German topped the times prior to Schumacher raising the bar. However, he continued to set a competitive pace, and with just a few minutes of the session remaining produced a lap just fractions shy of Raikkonen's best to take fourth. Enrique Bernoldi almost matched his team-mate's performance and was eighth.

Temperatures were a cool nine degrees and this seemed to favour the Bridgestone runners and Jacques Villeneuve used his to good effect to pip David Coulthard for fifth. Takuma Sato repeated his strong form from Friday to take seventh, but team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella was sidelined with a mechanical problem and didn't set a representative time.

The Renaults beat Williams in the second-best Michelin team stakes, with Jarno Trulli and Jenson Button closely matched in ninth and 10th, almost three seconds behind the pace-setting Ferraris. Ralf Schumacher (13th) and Juan Pablo Montoya (14th) were nearly four seconds off the world champion's times...

Pedro de la Rosa gave Jaguar some cause for optimism by setting the 11th best time, but Eddie Irvine missed the entire session after a gear selection problem hobbled his car. Toyota continues to struggle, but at least Mika Salo was feeling well enough to drive. The Finn was back 18th, while Allan McNish was 19th