Thursday April 13th, 2000

Michael Schumacher set the fastest time, on the third day of the Silverstone testing, where all teams are present ahead of the British Grand Prix next week.

Schumacher set a time under the 1999 testing lap record, but almost a second slower than the 2000 fastest testing time, set by Olivier Panis over a month ago. At the end of the day, Schumacher said: "My return to Silverstone for the first time since my accident had less of an effect on me than the accident Zonta had today. As for the rest, I would say that the car performed really well. We were able to run in both the wet and the dry. I think we can be competitive here at Silverstone as well. However, it was difficult to get a good day's testing in because of the constant red flags interrupting the session."

Weather conditions at Silverstone today were rain in the morning, and dry buy cold weather in the afternoon.

Testing will continue tomorrow at Silverstone.

Today's times:

Pos  Driver        Team                Time      Laps
 1.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari             1:25.827   50
 2.  Frentzen      Jordan-Mugen Honda  1:25.877   62
 3.  Hakkinen      McLaren-Mercedes    1:26.318   30
 4.  R.Schumacher  Williams-BMW        1:26.349   28
 6.  Button        Williams-BMW        1:26.549   45
 7.  Fisichella    Benetton-Playlife   1:26.585   72
 8.  Wurz          Benetton-Playlife   1:26.698   33
 9.  Panis         McLaren-Mercedes    1:26.925   54
10.  Diniz         Sauber-Petronas     1:27.179   60
11.  Trulli        Jordan-Mugen Honda  1:27.621   34
12.  Irvine        Jaguar-Cosworth     1:27.720   28
13.  Herbert       Jaguar-Cosworth     1:27.928   23
14   Heidfeld      Prost-Peugeot       1:28.386   31
15.  Salo          Sauber-Petronas     1:28.675   32
16.  Verstappen    Arrows-Supertec     1:28.736   38
17.  Mazzacane     Minardi-Fondmetal   1:29.178   20
18.  Gene          Minardi-Fondmetal   1:37.028   14
19.  Zonta         BAR-Honda           1:37.318    7
20.  Villeneuve    BAR-Honda           1:38.809   12

The 2000 fastest testing time is 1:24.84 (O. Panis)
The 1999 fastest testing time is 1:25.670 (G. Fisichella)