Jerez Test - Day 1

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Second of the Four Official Formula One Pre - Season Testing - Circuito De Jerez, Jerez Test, Spain
Day One

Ferrari Man Felipe Massa covered the maximum laps today with fastest time on the chart sheet at 1min 20.709sec. Massa will continue tomorrow before handing over the car to Alonso on Saturday.
Position
Name
Team
Car
Lap Time
Laps Covered
1
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
F150th Italia
1min 20.709sec
101
2
Sergio Perez
Sauber
C30
1min 21.483sec 88
3 Mark Webber
Red Bull RB7
1min 21.522sec
86
4
Daniel Ricciardo
Toro Rosso
STR6
1min 21.755sec 36
5
Lewis Hamilton
Mclaren
MP4-26
1min 21.914sec
53
6
Jaime Alguersuari
Toro Rosso
STR6
1min 22.689sec 38
7
Adrian Sutil
Force India
VJM04 1min 23.472sec 21
8
Vitaly Petrov
Renault
R31
1min 23.504sec 54
9 Nico Rosberg
Mercedes
MGP W02
1min 23.963sec 67
10
Jarno Trulli
Lotus
T128
1min 24.458sec
48
11
Timo Glock
Virgin
VR-02
1min 25.086sec
37
12
Pastor Maldonado
Williams
FW33
1min 34.968sec 09

With the first run of Mclaren MP4-26, Force India VJM04 and Virgin Racing VR-02 on the track, all the 11 teams participating in the Jerez Test are on the new machinery with 2011 season car out on track. Hispania Racing Team (HRT) have not participated in the Jerez test in lieu of photoshoot for Pirelli Tyres and also have not yet released their 2011 challenger car.

The new Force india VJM04 had a photoshoot earlier in the morning before heading for the action.

All the teams carried a 'Get Well Soon Robert' message on their cars in Jerez.

There were lot of Red flags that had been seen throughout the day. With first and second red flags are caused by Perez, Sauber and then by Petrov, Renault. Most of the teams suffered from one or the other problem throughout the day.

Massa remain quickest throughout the day by improving on its own best times. He set the best time in his 7th Lap itself. Only for few moments it was Daniel Ricciardo.

Team continued to collect information on Pirelli as they brought all four compounds of dry tyre to Jerez (super soft, soft, medium and hard), as well as intermediates and wets. But, there's no way to identify which compound is on a car at any given time.

It was a careful start for Force India's first run out with its 2011 car, but at the end of the day Adrian Sutil did 11 consecutive laps, circulating mainly in the 1m24s. He also did the best of his 28 laps early in that stint, putting him seventh at the end of the day. As the team had done a lot of system check was done in the morning for the new car by doing several installation lap and finally going for a longer stint in the afternoon.

It was another day of testing that Mercedes has completed without yet showing any signs of a frontrunning pace. Nico Rosberg's times slipped from 1m24s to 1m26s on his longest run of the day, 17 laps - though he did set his best time of the day - a 1m23.963s - on the third lap of that stint, while carrying a significant fuel load.

Vitaly Petrov and Pastor Maldonado put their personal best just before the end of the day.