Pre-Season 2012 Testing: Jerez

Right hello guys, it's that time of year again where we all will be getting excited about pre-season testing.

Well with 6 out of the 12 teams to have launched their cars already we see the rest hopefully come together tomorrow.

I have to admit that my favourite 2 of the launches so far are the Force India and the Mclaren and i'm not even been biast here!

Here is what i believe the line-up's will be for the 4 days:

Team Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Sauber Kobayashi/ Perez/ Perez/ Kobayashi
Ferrari Massa/ Massa/ Alonso/ Alonso
Force India di Resta/ di Resta/ Hulkenberg/ Hulkenberg
Caterham Kovalainen/ Kovalainen/ Garde/ Trulli
McLaren Button/ Button/ Hamilton/ Hamilton
Mercedes Rosberg/Schumacher/ Schumacher/ Rosberg/ TBC
Red Bull Webber/ Webber/ Vettel/ Vettel
Lotus Raikkonen/ Raikkonen/ Grosjean/ Grosjean
Toro Rosso Ricciardo/ Ricciardo/ Vergne/ Vergne
Williams Maldonado/ Maldonado/ Senna/ Senna
HRT de la Rosa/ de la Rosa/ TBC/ TBC

TBC - To be confirmed.

But the good news is apart for Marussia we've almost got a full got a full line-up for testing. Marussia are said to be joining in for the next test.

So who's looking forward to this then?

Weather forecast for the next 4 days:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/Spain/Jerez.htm

Fingers-crossed . Can't wait for the testing to get underway. For me it'll be just great to see the cars out on the track.

TBC is always busy this time of year.

Filmday times from Jerez:
1.

Kimi Räikkönen Lotus E20 1:22.504 21
2.

Kamui Kobayashi Sauber C31 1:24.407 + 1.903 21

It's good that HRT will make the first test this year - hopefully.

What's the name of the greek site that Snowy used last year? It had great data on all of the times.

http://www.msfree.gr/ms.php?id=25875

Pos     No.     Name         Status     Best         Gap     Diff     Last

1     9     RAIKKONEN     P     1:20.514     -     -     1:20.514

2     14     KOBAYASHI     P     1:22.112     1.598     1.598     1:22.112

3     6     MASSA         P     1:24.423     3.909     2.311     1:41.403

4     16     RICCIARDO         1:31.537     11.023     7.114     1:31.537

5     8     ROSBERG     P     1:41.939     21.425     10.402     1:43.157

6     11     DI RESTA         1:45.419     24.905     3.480     1:45.419     

Live timing on now on Autosport website.
Massa currently 4 seconds slower than Kimi

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/435

Hammy as far as I can see Mercedes aren't running in this test. In fact they're not even scheduled to launch their car until the 21st. I think that dates right.

Lapchart: N. Rosberg

Lap     Time     

0     ----     

8     1:43.157     

9     ----     

10     1:43.157     

11     ----     

12     1:24.622 

Your absolutely right. My mistake. They are running the 2011 car though so its meaningless to measure them against any of the other teams. We will know more when they arrive at the next test with their new car.

What Lotus/Raikkonen are doing is very impressive, they already seem to be doing decent length stints at a pace comparable to last year's best times. It doesn't mean they're going to be championship contenders, obviously, but they certainly seem to have a reliable car that they understand straight out of the box.

1 	 Raikkonen	Lotus	 	1m20.514s

2 	 Rosberg	Mercedes	1m21.379s  +0.865

3 	 Kobayashi	Sauber	 	1m22.112s  +1.598

4 	 Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1m23.141s  +2.627

5 	 Massa		Ferrari	 	1m23.391s  +2.877

6 	 De la Rosa	HRT	 	1m27.243s  +6.729

7 	 Di Resta	Force India	1m35.200s  +14.686

Does each team really only have 25 sets of tyres for the whole of pre season testing? Doesn't sound like much

Kimi Raikkonen

0 	---- 	

8 	1:20.514 	

13 	1:21.859 	+1.345

15 	1:23.402 	+1.543

16 	---- 	

17 	1:22.954 	

18 	1:22.485 	-0.469

19 	1:22.742 	+0.257

20 	1:22.502 	-0.24

21 	1:22.250 	-0.252

22 	1:22.107 	-0.143

23 	1:21.895 	-0.212

24 	1:22.979 	+1.084

25 	1:22.930 	-0.049

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