McLaren's David Coulthard continued to dominate today at Monza, where Mclaren, Ferrari and Jordan are carrying a three-day testing session.

While all drivers improved their time from yesterday, Coulthard was still fastest, almost 1.5 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Michael Schumacher. Today also saw the first day of Jordan's driver, Ralf Schumacher, who clocked the third fastest time, ahead of Ferrari's Eddie Irvine.

Testing at Monza will continue tomorrow, as Damon Hill is also expected to join the session.

Driver         team     time        laps
D. Coulthard   McLaren  1:24.263s     74
M. Schumacher  Ferrari  1:25.693s     75
R. Schumacher  Jordan   1:25.796s     79
E. Irvine      Ferrari  1:26.197s     69

Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams) was the fastest man on the track at Silverstone today. Max Wilson will replace him tomorrow. Pedro Diniz will then replace Mika Salo.

Driver           team      time
J.P. Montoya     Williams  1:25.36s
R.   Zonta       McLaren   1:26.12s 
M.   Salo        Arrows    1:27.66s
J.   Verstappen  Stewart   1:28.85s 

The Prost team at Barcelona held a closed session. They were testing for the 1999 car. No times are available.

Jean Alesi and Shinji Nakano saw their tests get washed away because of heavy rain on the Mugello track. Both did just 9 laps.

Driver     team      time       laps 
J. Alesi   Sauber    1:32.98     9
S. Nakano  Minardi   1:33.20     9 

The Benetton team, on the other hand, flooded a part of the Magny-Cours track to test Bridgestone rain tyres.