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Sunday Warm Up - British GP

Ferrari showed they should be favourites for victory in this weekend's British Grand Prix by topping the times in the morning warm-up, dominating as clouds over the Silversone circuit promised cool conditions for the afternoon race.

Ferrari showed they should be favourites for victory in this weekend's British Grand Prix by topping the times in the morning warm-up, dominating as clouds over the Silversone circuit promised cool conditions for the afternoon race.

Brazilian Rubens Barrichello once again got the better of his World Champion teammate Michael Schumacher, but such was the dominance of the scarlet cars that even the second Ferrari was nearly 1.5 seconds clear of third-placed Kimi Raikkonen's McLaren.

If the overcast weather continues through the day, the conditions should suit the Italian team's Bridgestone tyres, a fact that was proven with only four Michelin runners in the top ten in the half-hour session.

Jordan's Takuma Sato, who won the International Formula Three Challenge at Silverstone last year, finished fourth, but his hopes of a point's scoring finish remain questionable as he will start from 14th on the grid.

He was two tenths of a second faster than pole man Juan Pablo Montoya, of Williams-BMW, who was more than two seconds off the pace of the leading Ferrari in fifth place.

German Nick Heidfeld was sixth for Sauber, with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve seventh for the resurgent British American Racing team, which is based just 10 miles down the road from Silverstone.

Brazilian Felipe Massa, of Sauber, had another off-track excursion but managed eighth. Scottish McLaren driver David Coulthard and Italian Jarno Trulli, of Renault, completed the list of the top ten runners in a session which saw little incident other than a problem for Arrows, when Heinz-Harald Frentzen stopped out on the track.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:22.371 224.686 km/h 12 2. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:22.815 + 0.444 15 3. Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:24.214 + 1.843 12 4. Sato Jordan Honda (B) 1:24.224 + 1.853 15 5. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:24.439 + 2.068 11 6. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:24.723 + 2.352 14 7. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:24.741 + 2.370 14 8. Massa Sauber Petronas (B) 1:24.862 + 2.491 13 9. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:24.903 + 2.532 8 10. Trulli Renault (M) 1:25.074 + 2.703 13 11. Frentzen Arrows Cosworth (B) 1:25.160 + 2.789 11 12. Fisichella Jordan Honda (B) 1:25.204 + 2.833 13 13. Salo Toyota (M) 1:25.243 + 2.872 13 14. McNish Toyota (M) 1:25.461 + 3.090 13 15. R.Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:25.707 + 3.336 5 16. de la Rosa Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:25.799 + 3.428 14 17. Button Renault (M) 1:25.959 + 3.588 9 18. Panis BAR Honda (B) 1:26.099 + 3.728 9 19. Webber Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:26.617 + 4.246 14 20. Bernoldi Arrows Cosworth (B) 1:26.786 + 4.415 9 21. Irvine Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:26.888 + 4.517 9 All Timing Unofficial

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