Sunday Warm Up - European GP

Ferrari claimed first blood on race day at the Nurburgring when Brazilian Rubens Barrichello and his World Champion teammate Michael Schumacher topped the times in the Sunday morning warm-up for the European Grand Prix.

The overcast conditions that greeted the teams in the morning and looked set to remain for the rest of the day dropped temperatures to 16 degrees as the weather played into the hands of the teams on Bridgestone tyres.

Briton David Coulthard and his McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, of Finland, in third and fourth places respectively, were the only two Michelin-shod cars in the top ten.

German Schumacher, who will start from third on the grid behind the two Williams-BMW cars of Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya and his own brother Ralf, finished just three tenths of a second behind Barrichello as their Williams-BMW rivals struggled.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who usually goes well in the warm-up sessions in his Arrows, was up in the top times again despite a brief off early in the session and claimed fifth fastest time but was more than one and a half seconds off the pace of the lead Ferrari.

The Jordan-Honda pair of Takuma Sato and Giancarlo Fisichella, who had a disastrous qualifying session on Saturday and will line up 14th and 18th on the grid, set up well for the race with sixth and seventh places respectively.

Honda-powered rivals British American Racing also claimed top ten places with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve eighth and his French teammate Olivier Panis ninth fastest as Felipe Massa, in the Sauber, completed the top ten.

Pole position man Montoya was way down in 17th place, while team-mate Ralf Schumacher was 14th fastest, one place behind the Minardi of Australian Mark Webber.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:32.671 199.830 km/h 12 2. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:32.987 + 0.316 14 3. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:34.143 + 1.472 14 4. Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:34.324 + 1.653 12 5. Frentzen Arrows Cosworth (B) 1:34.461 + 1.790 13 6. Sato Jordan Honda (B) 1:34.804 + 2.133 14 7. Fisichella Jordan Honda (B) 1:34.914 + 2.243 12 8. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:34.969 + 2.298 14 9. Panis BAR Honda (B) 1:35.145 + 2.474 12 10. Massa Sauber Petronas (B) 1:35.460 + 2.789 15 11. Bernoldi Arrows Cosworth (B) 1:35.545 + 2.874 12 12. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:35.550 + 2.879 16 13. Webber Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:35.614 + 2.943 14 14. R.Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:35.615 + 2.944 13 15. de la Rosa Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:35.656 + 2.985 13 16. Button Renault (M) 1:35.749 + 3.078 9 17. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:35.978 + 3.307 5 18. Salo Toyota (M) 1:36.146 + 3.475 14 19. McNish Toyota (M) 1:36.200 + 3.529 11 20. Trulli Renault (M) 1:37.370 + 4.699 10 21. Irvine Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:37.598 + 4.927 11 22. Yoong Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:38.060 + 5.389 13 All Timing Unofficial