Pedro de la Rosa ended the final official Formula One test of the season with the quickest time at Jerez in Spain on Thursday. The McLaren test driver was just four hundredths of a second faster than Ferrari's tester Luca Badoer, with the two teams appearing as closely matched as they have been in recent races.
Mark Webber was an encouraging third fastest for Red Bull Racing, with Nick Heidfeld setting the fourth best time despite bringing one of the two red flags of the day out when he stopped out on track.
Nelson Piquet Jr. rounded out his three days of testing with Renault with the fifth fastest time, while Jenson Button continued the evaluation of new Honda concepts to set the sixth best time.
Although Rubens Barrichello had been upbeat about the new Honda parts, Button was not so convinced.
"I cannot tell you much really," said the Briton. "We don't know exactly what we are taking (to Fuji). At the moment we are just collecting data, so we have to see how it goes."
Jarno Trulli was seventh, while Sebastian Vettel was eighth fastest after causing the second flag when he ran off the circuit.
Today's times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:19.617 68
2. Badoer Ferrari (B) 1:19.656 68
3. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:20.067 42
4. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:20.184 94
5. Piquet Renault (B) 1:20.655 120
6. Button Honda (B) 1:20.831 66
7. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:21.621 77
8. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:21.626 82
9. Rossiter Honda (B) 1:21.663 39
10. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:22.148 57Source - http://autosport.com
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