Montoya Heads the Morning Times at Barcelona

Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya set the fastest time in the morning session of testing at Barcelona, Spain, where the British team began testing today alongside Sauber.

Montoya, driving alongside teammate Ralf Schumacher and test driver Marc Gene, set a time of 1:18.079 - over one and a half seconds faster than Schumacher, who set the third fastest time of the morning, behind Sauber driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

Frentzen, with a time of 1:19.606, and his teammate Nick Heidfeld - who set the fourth fastest time - were both testing the 2003 Sauber car, the C22, for the first time.

The two teams will be joined by most of the other Formula One teams as of tomorrow.

Today's morning times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Montoya Williams-BMW (M) 1:18.079 22 2. Frentzen Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:19.606 15 3. R.Schumacher Williams-BMW (M) 1:19.658 5 4. Heidfeld Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:20.104 31 5. Gene Williams-BMW (M) 1:20.401 20 All Timing Unofficial

More details of today's testing at Barcelona will be published at the end of the day, along with a full breakdown of each driver's laptimes