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Third of the Four Official Formula One Pre - Season Testing - Circuit De Catalunya, Barcelona Test
Day Two
Sebastian Vettel does it again. Sebastian Vettel topped the time sheets on Day 2 also. Earlier on Day 1, Sebastian had stolen a quickthunder from Alonso just 10min before the chequered flag.
Position
Name
Team
Car
Lap Time
Laps Covered
1 Sebastian Vettel
Red Bull RB7
1min 23.315sec
104
2
Jaime Alguersuari
Toro Rosso
STR6
1min 23.519sec 97
3
Fernando Alonso
Ferrari
F150th Italia
1min 24.978sec
90
4
Rubens Barrichello
Williams
FW33
1min 24.008sec 118
5
Nick Heidfeld
Renault
R31
1min 24.242sec 41
6
Kamui Kobayashi
Sauber
C30
1min 24.243sec 125
7 Nico Rosberg
Mercedes
MGP W02
1min 24.730sec 131
8
Jenson Button
Mclaren
MP4-26
1min 24.923sec
54
9
Paul Di Resta
Force India
VJM04 1min 25.194sec 80
10
Heiki Kovalainen
Lotus
T128
1min 26.421sec
58
11
Vitaly Petrov
Renault
R31
1min 26.884sec 61
12 Vitantonio Liuzzi
HRT
F111(2010)
1min 27.044sec 70
13
Timo Glock
Virgin
VR-02
1min 27.242sec
66
14
Ricardo Teixeira
Lotus
T128
1min 31.584sec
26
Vitantonio Liuzzi made his test debut for HRT as the Spanish team seek a 2011 team mate for Narain Karthikeyan. And Lotus tried out Portuguese-Angolan driver Ricardo Teixeira.
The world champion went for a string of qualifying-style one and two-lap runs late in the morning, during which he quickly went to the top of the times, and then repeatedly improved his pace until he reached the 1m23.315s that stood as the day's best.
Toro Rosso's good form continued as Jaime Alguersuari took second place. After some short runs in the 1m24s/1m25s region in the morning and then a longer stint through the middle of the day.
Alonso completed fewer laps than the average achieved by Ferrari so far. It is all because there were some problems with the Ferrari like one electrical, the other mechanical, which meant the team did not get through all of their planned program. Alonso still managed to get through 90 laps gathering useful data for the team.
On the issues, Fernando Alonso commented, "Better to have problems here than in a race".
The Renault R31 was fitted with some new parts to the water system, which successfully resolved the problems that the team experienced in Jerez. Renault also logged some useful data from their suspension set-up program in the afternoon, evaluating changes to the front and rear systems.
Nico Rosberg put a massive 131 laps for the team to gather a lot of valuable information.
Former Force India Driver Vitantonio Liuzzi commented: “Today was a positive day. We made a lot of changes on the car, focusing particularly on the set-up and the tyres."
"It was a chance for me to get to know the new tyres and the team as it was my first day with Hispania Racing. We couldn’t do a lot of laps since we had a problem with the gearbox in the afternoon, but we were able to clock a good time given the circumstances. We did long runs and short runs to test the performance of the car. Overall, I believe we’ve taken a step forwards with the balance of the car.”
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