Date:	Thursday 27th April 2006
Location:	Silverstone, UK
Drivers:	Kimi Raikkonen, Juan Pablo Montoya and Gary Paffett
Weather:	Overcast and with some showers
Track temperature:	High of 19.2 degrees Celsius
Air temperature:	High of 16.4 degrees Celsius
Laps run:	141
Kilometres covered:	Kimi Raikkonen approx. 483km Juan Pablo Montoya approx. 205km Gary Paffett approx. 36km
Best lap time of the day:	Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault, 1m18.503
Best lap time of the week:	Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault, 1m18.503
Total km during test:	1,689km Kimi Raikkonen approx. 673km Juan Pablo Montoya approx. 785km Pedro de la Rosa approx. 195km Gary Paffett approx. 36km
Duration of test:	Three days (25th – 27th April)

Today:
Team McLaren Mercedes concluded a three day test programme this afternoon at the Silverstone circuit in the UK. Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya were on track for the team. The morning saw the circuit closed on nine occasions, with two more red flags during the afternoon, equating about 30% of the track time available.

Kimi covered 483km, taking his total distance for the week to 673km. His fastest time of 1m18.978, which was set before lunch, saw Kimi end the day in second position on the timesheets.

Juan Pablo put in over 205km as he completed 40 laps, and his time of 1m19.676 was sixth quickest overall.

The running continued the week's work schedule, which was focused on the Michelin tyre selection process for the Spanish and British Grands Prix, the Mercedes-Benz V8 and aerodynamic development programme and general set-up.

Gary Paffett was also in attendance, to conduct a shakedown of an MP4-20 that is scheduled to be used at Goodwood later in the year.

Day One, Tuesday 25th April:
Juan Pablo was joined by Pedro de la Rosa at Silverstone. Running for both drivers was limited as rain showers during the morning left the track damp for much of the day. With conditions not appropriate for either intermediates or wet Michelins, the team would not have been able to gather any useful feedback from running on track. The two drivers covered over 400km between them, with Juan Pablo setting the fastest time of the day, with a 1m21.076.

Day Two, Wednesday 26th April:
Dry weather conditions prevailed and it allowed Juan Pablo and Kimi, who had replaced Pedro at the test, cover 560km in total as they set the fourth and fifth fastest times of the day. Both drivers spent the day running short stints, returning to the garage to put different compounds of the Michelin tyres on their MP4-21s and change set-ups, as the tyre selection process for Silverstone continued.

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 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."

 

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	105
Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	1m19.676	38
Juan Pablo Montoya	Team McLaren Mercedes	1m19.761	40
Anthony Davidson	Honda Racing	1m19.910	143
David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	1m20.007	85
Tonio Luizzi	Toro Rosso	1m20.083	84
Rubens Barrichello	Honda Racing	1m20.508	71
Mark Webber	Williams F1	1m20.842	101
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