Rain hinders Imola test

For the second consecutive day, Toro Rosso's testing was pretty much wiped out by very heavy rain, while BMW, who joined the test today, were also affected by the poor conditions.

Today was the first day Toro Rosso had two cars on track, with Tonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed at the wheel of the new STR1 chassis.

Liuzzi was the quickest driver today after 48 laps as his team worked on practicing pitstops due to the poor conditions.

"The conditions were worse than yesterday," said Toro Rosso's Chief Engineer Laurent Mekies. "So we decided to devote the entire day to sharpening up our pitstop practice with both drivers.

"It all went smoothly and now tomorrow's programme is in the hands of the weather gods."

Canadian Jacques Villeneuve was second quickest for the BMW team, who were also unable to carry out their scheduled programme. Therefore, the team concentrated on practicing starts and on system checks.

Villeneuve worked alongside test driver Robert Kubica, third quickest today.

Today's times:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time      Laps
 1.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Cosworth  (M)  1:29.087   48
 2.  Villeneuve    BMW-Sauber           (M)  1:30.804   57
 3.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber           (M)  1:32.553   26
 4.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Cosworth  (M)  1:33.410   44

All Timing Unofficial