By Karl King
April 28 2006

The final day of the Silverstone test saw McLaren again not being able to find that elusive four tenths to Renault. Giancarlo Fisichella topped the timesheets whilst Kimi Raikkonen was almost half a second behind. Heikki Kovalainen underlined the good Renault form, his lap time just a tenth off of Kimi.

The track was red flagged eleven times during the day, with nine of those occuring during the morning session where Kimi Raikkonen set his time of 1m18.978.

KIMI RAIKKONEN
"We have had some productive feedback over the last two days at Silverstone, with good information on set-ups and Michelins to take into the British Grand Prix in June. As the last test before the Spanish race, we have also been focusing on completing the selection process for Barcelona with Michelin."

Juan Pablo was on track during the day, setting the sixth fastest time of the day. Juan Pablo has been the busiest McLaren tester during the week, attending all three days and completing 785km.

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA
"It has been good to test at Silverstone before the race here, as it means we have positive data to use going into the weekend, but there have been a lot of red flags that really do interrupt the programme. It has been really noticeable here how much faster you are through the corners now we have V8 engines, Copse, for example, is really fast and you don't really lift."

The only team to front three drivers during the day, Gary Paffett was also on track in the MP4-20. The Briton only completed 7 laps of his home track, just giving the car a shakedown before it runs at Goodwood later in the year. Predictably Gary was faster than only the MF1 of Adrian Sutil.

Driver	Constructor	Time	Laps
Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1m18.503	124
Kimi Raikkonen	Team McLaren Mercedes	1m18.978	93
Heikki Kovalainen	Renault	1m19.096	106
Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1m19.623	38
Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	1m19.676	40
Juan Pablo Montoya	Team McLaren Mercedes	1m19.761	40
Anthony Davidson	Honda Racing	1m19.910	85
David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	1m20.007	84
Tonio Luizzi	Toro Rosso	1m20.083	71
Rubens Barrichello	Honda Racing	1m20.508	101
Mark Webber	Williams F1	1m20.842	105
Christijan Albers	MF1 Racing	1m20.987	43
Alex Wurz	Williams F1	1m21.190	109
Gary Paffett	Team McLaren Mercedes	1m21.888	7
Adrian Sutil	MF1 Racing	1m25.400	10

Times from Team McLaren Mercedes