Click to follow
Third of the Four Official Formula One Pre - Season Testing - Circuit De Catalunya, Barcelona Test
Day One
Sebastian Vettel steal the thunder from Fernando Alonso in the last 10mins on Day 1 by going quickest.
Position
Name
Team
Car
Lap Time
Laps Covered
1 Sebastian Vettel
Red Bull RB7
1min 24.374sec
37
2
Fernando Alonso
Ferrari
F150th Italia
1min 25.485sec
101
3
Jaime Alguersuari
Toro Rosso
STR6
1min 25.638sec 57
4
Kamui Kobayashi
Sauber
C30
1min 25.641sec 78
5
Jenson Button
Mclaren
MP4-26
1min 26.365sec
77
6
Paul Di Resta
Force India
VJM04 1min 26.575sec 26
7
Rubens Barrichello
Williams
FW33
1min 26.912sec 52
8 Michael Schumacher
Mercedes
MGP W02
1min 27.512sec 90
9 Narain Karthikeyan
HRT
F111(2010)
1min 28.393sec 116
10
Heiki Kovalainen
Lotus
T128
1min 30.065sec
54
11
Jerome D'Ambrosio
Virgin
VR-02
1min 30.950sec
116
12
Vitaly Petrov
Renault
R31
1min 35.174sec 20
13
Nick Heidfeld
Renault
R31
1min 44.324sec 27
With the day starting on a damp track due to heavy rain on Thursday and drying by mid morning, there was a wide spread of times amongst the 13 drivers present.
Fernando Alonso showed a promising result once again. He had proved a stronghold for Ferrari with constantly scoring quick lap times with 100 plus laps a day. A lot of data had been collected for F150th Italia. The car is reliable as there had been no technical problems with the car till now as continue to adopt the setup on car from Jerez Test.
Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari and Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi again set good times during relatively short runs to put themselves third and fourth. Both also caused red flags during the day - the Sauber running dry during a fuel consumption evaluation, and Alguersuari going into the Turn 4 gravel.
Paul di Resta was not able to get the Force India on track until the final few hours while the team waited for new parts for the VJM04. When he did though the Scot was able to swiftly move up to sixth despite only managing 24 laps all day. Paul Di Resta said, "The guys did pretty well to get the car out on track today and towards the end of the afternoon we did some productive running to get a good baseline set-up for tomorrow when we'll have a much more extensive test programme to carry out". I definitely feel there is more to come from the car and I'm looking forward to getting back out there to help the team get as much out of this test as possible.
Michael Schumacher was eighth fastest in Mercedes MGP W02. The German first headed out midway through the morning to complete aerodynamic evaluations and balance checks. Following the lunch break, he completed a successful race simulation including pit stops.
“We had a good day and it is certainly satisfying to finish a race distance with all of the systems operational and to have everything working fine,” said Schumacher, who hands over to Nico Rosberg on Saturday. “Now we have to turn our focus to performance and it was important to complete today’s simulation to understand how the car and tyres behave going from a heavy to lighter fuel load.”
Indian Driver Narain Karthikeyan in HRT F111 (2010 car model) covered 116laps to gather information regarding car functioning.
No comments:
Post a Comment