McLaren's David Coulthard continued to dominate today at Monza, where Mclaren, Ferrari and Jordan are carrying a three-day testing session.
While all drivers improved their time from yesterday, Coulthard was still fastest, almost 1.5 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Michael Schumacher. Today also saw the first day of Jordan's driver, Ralf Schumacher, who clocked the third fastest time, ahead of Ferrari's Eddie Irvine.
Testing at Monza will continue tomorrow, as Damon Hill is also expected to join the session.
Driver team time laps D. Coulthard McLaren 1:24.263s 74 M. Schumacher Ferrari 1:25.693s 75 R. Schumacher Jordan 1:25.796s 79 E. Irvine Ferrari 1:26.197s 69
Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams) was the fastest man on the track at Silverstone today. Max Wilson will replace him tomorrow. Pedro Diniz will then replace Mika Salo.
Driver team time J.P. Montoya Williams 1:25.36s R. Zonta McLaren 1:26.12s M. Salo Arrows 1:27.66s J. Verstappen Stewart 1:28.85s
The Prost team at Barcelona held a closed session. They were testing for the 1999 car. No times are available.
Jean Alesi and Shinji Nakano saw their tests get washed away because of heavy rain on the Mugello track. Both did just 9 laps.
Driver team time laps J. Alesi Sauber 1:32.98 9 S. Nakano Minardi 1:33.20 9
The Benetton team, on the other hand, flooded a part of the Magny-Cours track to test Bridgestone rain tyres.