Third day of testing at Jerez and McLaren's Test driver Perdo de la Rosa set the fastest time of the day in a V10 powered car ahead of Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button in V8 powered cars.

8 teams and 13 drivers took part in the test today. Renault concluded testing for this week.

Honda Racing driver Jenson Button covered the most number of laps with 122 laps followed by David Coulthard with 104 laps.

de la Rosa's best time was a 1:17.303 running a V10 engine while Rosberg in second set a 1:19.174 running a V8 engine. For reference, the fastest time in 2005 at Jerez was a 1:15.561 by Pedro de la Rosa in the McLaren MP4/20

Red Bull Racing ran restricted V10 engines, McLaren and MF1 Racing had 1 car with a V10 and another car with a V8. All other teams ran V8 engines.

No major problems reported today although Ferrari didn't test with the F2005, the BMW Sauber had some hydraulic problems and one of the Toyota's had a fuel system problem.

Weather conditions were sunny and clear with air temperature reaching 21 degrees while track temperatures reached 29 degrees.

Testing continues tomorrow.

Best Lap Times and lap records at Testing Tracks

Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9

Formula 1 Team notes below

Driver	Team	Best Lap	Number of Laps
Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren V10	1:17.303	77
Nico Rosberg	Williams V8	1:19.174	24
Jenson Button	Honda V8	1:19.365	122
Jarno Trulli	Toyota V8	1:19.670	89
Mark Webber	Williams V8	1:19.684	55
Ricardo Zonta	Toyota V8	1:19.859	60
Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber V8	1:19.864	86
Christijan Albers	MF1 Racing V10/V8	1:19.952	70
Alex Wurz	McLaren V8	1:20.105	70
Anthony Davidson	Honda V8	1:20.106	102
Tiago Monteiro	MF1 Racing V10/V8	1:20.300	70
Marc Gene	Ferrari V8	1:20.981	79
David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing V10	1:21.114	104