Michael Schumacher took over the MGP W02 car in Jerez yesterday for the second day of this week's test programme.

Running with the Mercedes KERS operational throughout the day to continue Michael's familiarisation process, the team focused on system checks with shorter runs in the early part of the day, before progressing to set-up work and tyre evaluations with the medium and super soft Pirelli tyre compounds over longer runs.

With good reliability and mileage accumulation, Michael and the team had a productive day covering 112 laps. Michael will continue the programme on  Saturday  with Nico taking over on Sunday.

 Michael Schumacher: "It clearly was a productive day, and obviously I am happy about that. We were focusing on long runs and being able to produce such a lot of mileage is positive in terms of reliability. It also gives us good data for the test days to come and for the developments we are working on. We are moving forward as we should during the testing period but at the same time, we are aware we have to keep pushing."  

Unofficial testing times

Pos/ Driver/ Constructor/ Time/ Laps1 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1m20.352 1122 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m20.413 1163 Jenson Button Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1m21.009 694 Jaime Alguersuari Scuderia Toro Rosso 1m21.214 725 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing 1m21.613 1136 Adrian Sutil Force India F1 1m21.780 737 Sergio Perez Sauber 1m21.857 568 Timo Glock Virgin Racing 1m22.208 579 Vitaly Petrov Lotus-Renault 1m22.493 6510 Pastor Maldonado Williams 1m22.591 3711 Jarno Trulli Team Lotus 1m23.216 40