Pre-Season Barcelona Test - 8th to 12th March

[snowy]

Kobayashi has just made his 3rd stop on lap 34 of his simulation

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Fernando is setting a blistering pace, he is already into the low 1:27s just 26 laps into his race simulation. That is just a tad over "a lot quicker" than Felipe did in his race sim!

Drat and double drat!
And triple drat!

Where's Seb in the scheme of things btw?

 

[snowy]

Meanwhile Michael Schumacher has improved on his quickest time of the day, setting a 1:21.249.

 

[Enja]

The whole team is the pits!

I wasn't suggesting he was alone in the garage eating a bacon sandwich

 

[snowy]

Seb is on the track which is more than can be said for the team I can't mention any more.

 

[snowy]

Alonso pits for the 3rd time having just wondered into the 1:29s...

Bloody slow coach!

 

[F1Yorkshire]

In response to the news about the Japanese Tsunami, do we know what effects if any it has had on the Suzuka circuit? It is located on the east coast quite close to the sea but I'm not sure how far above sea level it is situated.

 

[Pyrope]

How has this happened? If there is one team on the grid that shouldn't have to worry about getting parts into Spain it is the team who built and designed their car IN SPAIN!

Unbelievably unprofessional!

Well, no, the car wasn't built in Spain. It was designed in Italy (let's face it, that's just the Dallara again... whatever Geoff Willllllis claims), constructed in Austria, and assembled in Germany using an engine, electronics and gearbox made in the UK. All of which, last time I checked, are members of the European Union, as is Spain. So, what customs?

 

[snowy]

Alonso does a very slow 1:49.591!

 

[snowy]

Θ. 	Driver		Team 		Best Lap 	Last lap 	Diff	Laps

1 	M. Schumacher	Mercedes 	1:21.249 	1:32.584 		67

2 	F. Alonso	Ferrari 	1:21.614 	1:56.505 	+0.365 	109

3 	N. Heidfeld	Renault 	1:22.073 	1:26.290 	+0.824 	49

4 	R. Barrichello	Williams 	1:22.233 	1:28.094 	+0.984 	89

5 	K. Kobayashi	Sauber 		1:22.315 	1:30.461 	+1.066 	87

6 	J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso 	1:22.675 	1:31.373 	+1.426 	58

7 	S. Vettel	Red Bull 	1:23.012 	1:25.028 	+1.763 	40

8 	H. Kovalainen	Lotus 		1:23.437 	1:31.588 	+2.188 	107

9 	A. Sutil	Force India 	1:23.921 	1:25.512 	+2.672 	26

10 	J. Button	McLaren 	1:25.837 	1:27.543 	+4.588 	38

11 	P. di Resta	Force India 	1:27.015 	1:31.843 	+5.766 	26

12 	J. D'Ambrosio	Virgin 		1:27.375 	1:28.062 	+6.126 	43

 

[snowy]

And an even slower 1:56.505!

Then starts back up with the 1:27s.

 

[snowy]

Kamui is on lap 45 of his sim, still doing 28s-31s.

 

[Enja]

He's just pitted as well, doing some very odd times..

 

[snowy]

Nick Heidfeld has missed his window of opportunity to complete a race distance with only an hour and 15 minutes to go till end of session...

 

[snowy]

It was a scheduled stop for Fernando.

He has another 13 laps to go...

 

[Enja]

Snowy.. Autosport says Kamui is on a 25 lap run? :/

 

[snowy]

That is how many laps he needs to do in his final stint.

There is a red flag?

And it is Kobi that is the cause!

 

[Enja]

Yep. Kobayashi stopped at turn 3.

 

[snowy]

The Mclaren guys have spent the afternoon changing Jenson's engine...

Am I allowed to say that?

 

[snowy]

Nico Rosberg is having a go with the new upgraded and rather nifty Mercedes.