Wednesday March 1st, 2000

Williams' Jenson Button set the fastest lap time during the final day of testing at Silverstone today. Button clocked a quickest time of 1:26.38 during his 47 laps of the circuit, ahead of David Coulthard's McLaren Mercedes MP4-15 and the Jordan Mugen-Honda EJ10 of Jarno Trulli.

"While we must not read too much into lap times at test sessions, I am obviously very pleased indeed to be on the pace," said a satisfied Button. "The team have done a great job in aiding my development over the past few weeks and now its down to me in Melbourne. I will give my best, but we must remember that this is a long term programme."

Also on track were the Arrows of Pedro de la Rosa and Jos Verstappen, whose new livery colour is orange.

Today's times:

 1.  Button      Williams-BMW        1:26.38 
 2.  Coulthard   McLaren-Mercedes    1:27.23 
 3.  Trulli      Jordan-Mugen Honda  1:27.45 
 4.  Zonta       BAR-Honda           1:27.74 
 5.  de la Rosa  Arrows-Supertec     1:28.14 
 6.  Burti       Jaguar-Cosworth     1:28.53 
 7.  Frentzen    Jordan-Mugen Honda  1:28.79 
 8.  Heidfeld    Prost-Peugeot       1:29.02 
 9.  Verstappen  Arrows-Supertec     1:29.82 
10.  Lemarie     BAR-Honda           1:31.70 
11.  Wurz        Benetton-Playlife   1:38.82 
12.  Fisichella  Benetton-Playlife   1:39.03 

The 1999 fastest testing time is 1:25.670 (G. Fisichella)