Panis Fastest as Testing Ends at Barcelona

BAR's Olivier Panis set the fastest time of the final day of testing at the Barcelona circuit today, where BAR were running alongside McLaren, Jaguar and Williams in preparations for next weekend's United States Grand Prix.

The Frenchman was not testing prior to today's session, and his time was just a fraction faster than McLaren's David Coulthard, who set a best time of 1:18.520 after completing a massive 106 laps.

Coulthard's time was over a second slower than his best time of yesterday, and over 1.5 seconds slower than test driver Alex Wurz's best time of the week, 1:16.938, set on Wednesday.

Antonio Pizzonia continued testing for Jaguar for the second day in a row, improving his time of yesterday by almost a second.

BMW-Williams continued testing with Marc Gene today, despite having planned to wrap up their session yesterday.

Today's times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Panis BAR-Honda (B) 1:18.373 54 2. Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:18.520 106 3. Pizzonia Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:18.647 58 4. Gene Williams-BMW (M) 1:19.103 63 All Timing Unofficial

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