McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa hit the top of the timesheets on the penultimate day of testing this year at Jerez on Thursday.

The Spanish test driver was over 0.3s ahead of Toyota's Jarno Trulli.

Frenchman lowers his best mark from yesterday by a full second to end up just 0.025 off Toro Rosso teammate Scott Speed.

Toyoa bids farewell to Panis and Zonta

Briatore confident team has enough talent on and off track to thrive in post-Alonso era.

Test Times: Jerez - 14-12

Nelson to join Williams?

Schumacher keeps up to speed

Williams remains tight-lipped on the subject of whether or not the team has hired Renault F1 engineer Rod Nelson. What is clear is that Nelson is on gardening leave at Renault and will not be rejoining the team - so it is really just a question of where he turns up next.

BMW Sauber has announced the addition of a supercomputer, Albert 2, to help develop aerodynamics in the design process. The computer is Europe's fastest machine in industry according to the current Top-500 list. The machine, based on Intel technology, is on average three times faster than its predecessor and is employed by the team for computional fluid dynamics (CFD).

Michael Schumacher is still very much in close contact with the Ferrari F1 team, test driver Luca Badoer has revealed. Even though the seven-time world champion is taking a break before returning to the Ferrari team in some kind of advisory role, it seems the German is finding it difficult to let go.

Albert (2) joins BMW

GPLive to feature Adrian Newey