Jerez Test - Day 2

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

Glorious Michael Schumacher had topped the chart sheets for Day 2 of Jerez Test. The run on which Schumacher did the best lap was not a drastically low fuel run, at least not less than 10 laps. But it still was not a complete turnaround for Mercedes because, despite the fastest time, it took a lot of laps for his times to stabilise - and when they did they were around a second slower than where Red Bull was on similar runs.

Massa who was fastest yesterday was only 6 hundreth of a sec slower than Schumi.
Position
Name
Team
Car
Lap Time
Laps Covered
1 Michael Schumacher
Mercedes
MGP W02
1min 20.352sec 112
2
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
F150th Italia
1min 20.413sec
116
3
Jenson Button
Mclaren
MP4-26
1min 21.009sec
69
4
Jaime Alguersuari
Toro Rosso
STR6
1min 21.214sec 72
5 Mark Webber
Red Bull RB7
1min 21.613sec
113
6
Adrian Sutil
Force India
VJM04 1min 21.780sec 72
7
Sergio Perez
Sauber
C30
1min 21.857sec 56
8
Timo Glock
Virgin
VR-02
1min 22.208sec
57
9
Vitaly Petrov
Renault
R31
1min 22.493sec 65
10
Pastor Maldonado
Williams
FW33
1min 22.591sec 38
11
Jarno Trulli
Lotus
T128
1min 23.216sec
40

Only 11 drivers tested on Day 2, with each team sending only one of their drivers.

Red flags were a common sight on day 2 also. Total of four red flags were seen with two spins, by Alguersuari and Petrov, and two crashes, by Perez and Maldonado.

It was difficult to find out which tyres the teams are using for testing as the identifiers for Tyres will only be seen in Bahrain.

Williams had a KERS battery warning for which the team had done a full battery strip to check-all ok, and with all due precautions they had not rushed on track due to safety issues with high voltage.

Force India stuck to mainly short runs on the second day out for the VJM04, with Adrian Sutil mainly in the 1m23s and 24s.

Vitaly Petrov was only 9th fastest having done two days of testing. He will be handing over the car either to Nick Heidfeld or Bruno Senna. Each one of them will be having one day each for testing.

Massa will be handling over the car to Fernando Alonso tomorrow with Paul Di Resta taking the seat for Force India.