By Phil Giles
September 4 2003

Jordan have ended the Monza test although, the day was not as trouble free as the team had hoped. Giancarlo Fisichella again and newbie Björn Wirdheim were at the sharp end for the day.

Fisi worked on the Bridgestone Tyre development program and had time to work on setup for the Italian Grand Prix. Björn spent the day on familiarisation along with brake and damper development.  He completed 46 laps and Giancarlo ran for 41 laps.

"It was a bit difficult because we ran into some problems and unfortunately I didn’t get as much as running as I was hoping." said Björn.  "The team did good job though and were able to get me out at the end of day for a few more laps. It was good experience for me to drive the car, but I was still learning at the end of the afternoon so I would have liked a few more laps."

Gary Anderson commented, "It was a fairly difficult day with a few problems of our own. We had to take the engine off to carry out a fuel system repair on Björn’s car and fairly early on in the pit lane there was an electronics glitch on his car which meant the throttle stuck fully open, so we had a lot of down time on both cars while we diagnosed and corrected the problem. He did a good job in difficult circumstances – he was cool and calm and got on with work. He probably would have found more lap time with another 20 laps. Giancarlo had a gearbox casing failure early-afternoon and we spent a lot of time changing the gearbox. It was a "stop-start" day which is a bit frustrating but it happens in testing. Both drivers did a reasonable job and all our tyre and damper work is complete; Björn had the opportunity to learn about the car and Giancarlo had some time to work on race set-up."

The teams next test will be on the Friday of the Italian Grand Prix.