Sunday Warm-Up - European GP

Rubens Barrichello clocked the fastest time of Sunday's warm-up session, outpacing teammate Michael Schumacher ahead of today's European Grand Prix. Barrichello's time was already faster than the overall fastest race lap record around the Nurburgring, to confirm predictions of a quick race.

But Schumacher and younger brother Ralf continued their home soil rivalry to finish second and third. Eddie Irvine put in an encouraging performance for Jaguar to claim fourth fastest ahead of David Coulthard, who was just less than half a second off the lead pace in fifth.

Ralf Schumacher's teammate Juan Pablo Montoya proved Williams will be a force to be reckoned with by claiming the sixth fastest time. Coulthard's McLaren teammate Mika Hakkinen was eighth fastest and Nick Heidfeld and Kimi Raikkonen continued to show that Sauber are nicely on the pace by filling out the top ten.

Both the British American Racing drivers, Jacques Villeneuve and Olivier Panis, were foiled by the chicane and ended well off the pace.

Pos Driver Team Times 1. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:18.209 209.715 km/h 2. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:18.371 + 0.162 3. R.Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:18.392 + 0.183 4. Irvine Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:18.466 + 0.257 5. Coulthard Mclaren Mercedes (B) 1:18.674 + 0.465 6. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:18.843 + 0.634 7. Trulli Jordan Honda (B) 1:19.002 + 0.793 8. Hakkinen Mclaren Mercedes (B) 1:19.164 + 0.955 9. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:19.732 + 1.523 10. Raikkonen Sauber Petronas (B) 1:19.787 + 1.578 11. de la Rosa Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:19.796 + 1.587 12. Panis BAR Honda (B) 1:19.808 + 1.599 13. Alesi Prost Acer (M) 1:19.854 + 1.645 14. Frentzen Jordan Honda (B) 1:19.917 + 1.708 15. Bernoldi Arrows Asiatech (B) 1:20.098 + 1.889 16. Verstappen Arrows Asiatech (B) 1:20.115 + 1.906 17. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:20.320 + 2.111 18. Burti Prost Acer (M) 1:20.608 + 2.399 19. Marques Minardi European (M) 1:20.988 + 2.779 20. Alonso Minardi European (M) 1:21.367 + 3.158 21. Button Benetton Renault (M) 1:21.423 + 3.214 22. Fisichella Benetton Renault (M) 1:21.766 + 3.557 All Timing Unofficial