Thursday September 2nd, 1999

Stewart-Ford driver, Johnny Herbert, ended a surprising fastest on the second day of testing at the Monza track. The Briton was some three tenth of a second faster than Championship leader, Mika Hakkinen, and 1.7 seconds faster than teammate Rubens Barrichello, who had a problem with the rear wing end plate caused by vibration and ran only 32 laps.

All teams concentrated on set-up testing for the upcoming Italian Grand Prix, with Ferrari driver Mika Salo running a full race distance in the afternoon as simulation. The Finn ended up doing a record 127 laps of testing in one day - the most laps done by one driver on one day in this season.

Many cars spun today on the track, and due to many "red flags" that interrupted today's test, its end was delayed to 6:45 PM. Testing at Monza will resume tomorrow.

Pos  Driver        Team                Time      Laps
 1.  Herbert       Stewart-Ford        1:24.180   46 
 2.  Hakkinen      McLaren-Mercedes    1:24.393   62 
 3.  Salo          Ferrari             1:24.535  127 
 4.  Coulthard     McLaren-Mercedes    1:24.593   74 
 5.  R.Schumacher  Williams-Supertec   1:24.683   53 
 6.  Zanardi       Williams-Supertec   1:24.897   57 
 7.  Frentzen      Jordan Mugen-Honda  1:25.077   55 
 8.  Fisichella    Benetton-Playlife   1:25.218   47 
 9.  Trulli        Prost-Peugeot       1:25.276   71 
10.  Alesi         Sauber-Petronas     1:25.536   71 
11.  Irvine        Ferrari             1:25.577   64 
12.  Diniz         Sauber-Petronas     1:25.650   42 
13.  Wurz          Benetton-Playlife   1:25.686   65 
14.  Panis         Prost-Peugeot       1:25.701   70 
15.  Barrichello   Stewart-Ford        1:25.862   32 
16.  Hill          Jordan Mugen-Honda  1:26.129   50 
17.  Gene          Minardi-Ford        1:26.226   58 
18.  Zonta         BAR-Supertec        1:27.039   23