Barcelona - Thursday - Testing
The top three drivers in today’s testing session at the Circuit de Catalunya set impressive lap times on the Spanish track.
Jenson Button finished the day with the quickest time, only a few hundreds of a second ahead of the Renault drivers. These three men’s performances are only four tenths of a second from the track record held by Button since 7 April 2004: 1’13”552.
Takuma Sato made noticeable progress at the wheel of the SA05, although his best lap is still more than two and a half seconds slower than the MF1 driver’s pace.

Barcelona - 23/02/06
1. J. Button - Honda RA106 - 1`13"935 (+0"000) - 116 laps
2. G. Fisichella - Renault R26 - 1`13"971 (+0"036) - 125 laps
3. F. Alonso - Renault R26 - 1`13"977 (+0"042) - 113 laps
4. R. Barrichello - Honda RA106 -1`14"266 (+0"331) - 119 laps
5. J.P. Montoya - McLaren Mercedes MP4-21 - 1`14"588 (+0"653) - 131 laps
6. K. Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes MP4-21 - 1`15"475 (+1"540) - 79 laps
7. N. Rosberg - Williams Cosworth FW28 - 1`15"774 (+1"839) - 83 laps
8. R. Schumacher - Toyota TF106 - 1`15"973 (+2"038) - 97 laps
9. D. Coulthard - Red Bull Ferrari RB2 - 1`16"034 (+2"099) - 54 laps
10. J. Trulli - Toyota TF106 - 1`16"057 (+2"122) - 103 laps
11. M. Webber - Williams Cosworth FW28 - 1`16"128 (+2"193) - 97 laps
12. C. Klien - Red Bull Ferrari RB2 - 1`16"923 (+2"988) - 55 laps
13. C. Albers – MF1 Toyota M16 - 1`17"142 (+3"207) - 79 laps
14. T. Sato - Super Aguri Honda SA05 - 1`19"787 (+5"852) - 58 laps

Lap times courtesy of Circuit de Catalunya.

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