Warm-up: Ferrari one-two

However, it wasn't all plain sailing for championship leader Schumacher, who was forced to pull off the track with smoke wafting from the rear of the spare F2002. However, he ran back to the pits and jumped back into his race chassis, which he used to set the fastest time.

Conditions were clear and sunny although the track temperature was much cooler than it was in Saturday's qualifying session. This seemed to favour the Bridgestone runners slightly, as emphasised by Enrique Bernoldi's fifth place for Arrows, and the Brazilian had been as high as third at one stage.

However, Michelin cars were strongly represented in the top 10, with David Coulthard fourth albeit over a second slower than the Ferraris. Jarno Trulli showed Renault's best form of the weekend to finish sixth, but Jenson Button was once again towards the foot of the times in 18th.

Pedro de la Rosa had an unexpectedly strong session for Jaguar and was seventh quickest, while pole man Juan Pablo Montoya had a wild trip across the kerbs towards the end of the session and he could do no better than ninth, 1.5s off the pace.

Olivier Panis continued BAR's improved form with ninth and Felipe Massa completed the top 10 for Sauber.