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Silverstone, day 2 - AM: McLaren rules early roost

McLaren team mates David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen topped the time sheets on the second morning of Silverstone's three-day Formula 1 test. Coulthard, the joint world championship leader after four races, was 0.31s faster than the Finn

In the 'battle' for Honda supremacy, Tuesday's pace-setter Heinz-Harald Frentzen was third for Jordan, ahead of Jacques Villeneuve's BAR.

Luciano Burti was fifth for Jaguar and top of the Michelin runners, just edging San Marino Grand Prix winner Ralf Schumacher's Williams-BMW in the cold and blustery conditions.

Easter travel restrictions in France mean all of the British-based teams, bar Arrows, are in attendance at the Northamptonshire track for the last major test before the legal reintroduction of traction control at the Spanish Grand Prix on April 29.

The Paris-based Prost team has also made the trip and is using it as a first outing for newly-announced test driver Jonathan Cochet, but the 24-year-old is the only tester running at the track today.

Benetton-Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella faile dto set a time in the morning session after stopping in the stadium section and being brought back to the pits on the back of a lorry.




David Coulthard (McLaren-Mercedes) B 1m23.77s 16 laps
Mika Hakkinen (McLaren-Mercedes) B 1m24.08s 14
Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Jordan-Honda) B 1m24.18s 20
Jacques Villeneuve (BAR-Honda) B 1m24.38s 24
Luciano Burti (Jaguar) M 1m24.74s 38
Ralf Schumacher (Williams-BMW) M 1m25.08s 16
Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams-BMW) M 1m25.11s 12
Olivier Panis (BAR-Honda) 1m25.16s 9
Eddie Irvine (Jaguar) 1m25.76s 17
Jean Alesi (Prost-Acer) 1m26.46s 50
Jonathan Cochet (Prost-Acer) 1m29.07s 25

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