Pre-Season Jerez Test 10-13Feb

[Brogan]

Which is lovely, but if they're starting the races with 15kg more fuel than the rest...

Which is what I was getting at on my engine thread: 2010: Battle of the engines?

 

[cider_and_toast]

That's the sort of thing that we won't know until the first race of the season.

 

[snowy]

Day 3

1. J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso STR5		1:19.919	 	20  	pit

2. P. de la Rosa	Sauber	C29		1:20.736	+0.817	17 	pit

3. A. Sutil		Force India VJM-03	1:21.428	+1.509	20 	pit

4. F. Massa		Ferrari	F10		1:21.603	+1.684	24 	pit

5. S. Vettel		Red Bull Racing	RB6	1:21.783	+1.864	23 	pit

6. V. Petrov		Renault	R30		1:22.000	+2.081	16 	pit

7. N. Rosberg		Mercedes GP W01		1:22.820	+2.901	4 	pit

8. R. Barrichello	Williams FW32		1:23.217	+3.298	30 	pit

9. L. Hamilton		McLaren	MP4-25		1:23.985	+4.066	20 	pit

09:15 Rain.

 

[Muddytalker]

One thing I'm pretty sure about is that last year the Merc engine was the one to have. This year, well so far it looks like the boys from Maranello have designed a good 'un

That's Ferrari, Sauber Ferrari and STR Ferrari all topping the time sheets at various times throughout testing so far.

I was going to make the same point this morning. Has there been any allowance this off-season for making engine changes and tweaks to boost the powerimprove the fuel consumption?

 

[snowy]

Pos  	No.  	Name  	        Status  Best  	 	Gap  	Diff  	Last

1 	17 	ALGUERSUARI 	P 	1:19.919 	- 	- 	1:19.919

2 	62 	KOBAYASHI 	P 	1:19.950 	0.031 	0.031 	

3 	16 	BUEMI 		P 	1:20.026 	0.107 	0.076 	

4 	1 	BUTTON 		P 	1:20.618 	0.699 	0.592 	

5 	10 	HULKENBERG 	P 	1:20.629 	0.710 	0.011 	

6 	61 	DE LA ROSA 	P 	1:20.736 	0.817 	0.107 	1:21.885

7 	15 	LIUZZI 		P 	1:20.754 	0.835 	0.018 	

8 	3 	SCHUMACHER 	P 	1:21.083 	1.164 	0.329 	

9 	8 	ALONSO 		P 	1:21.424 	1.505 	0.341 	

10 	14 	SUTIL 		P 	1:21.428 	1.509 	0.004 	1:23.248

11 	7 	MASSA 		P 	1:21.603 	1.684 	0.175 	1:23.654

12 	5 	VETTEL 		P 	1:21.783 	1.864 	0.180 	1:50.388 

13 	12 	PETROV 		P 	1:22.000 	2.081 	0.217 	1:25.014

14 	11 	KUBICA 		P 	1:22.003 	2.084 	0.003 	

15 	6 	WEBBER 		P 	1:22.043 	2.124 	0.040 	

16 	4 	ROSBERG 	P 	1:22.820 	2.901 	0.777 	1:22.820

17 	9 	BARRICHELLO 	P 	1:23.217 	3.298 	0.397 	1:29.413

18 	2 	HAMILTON 	P 	1:23.985 	4.066 	0.768 	1:36.765

19 	24 	GLOCK 		P 	1:29.964 	10.045 	5.979

 

[snowy]

If only it wasn't raining, I've just found AT&T Williams' Live timing!

 

[snowy]

FIA to keep fuel weights secret in 2010

Autosport writes:

The FIA has confirmed there are no plans to publish the starting weights of cars this year, meaning fans will not get an instant glimpse as to which engines are the most fuel-efficient.

 

[sobriety]

 

[snowy]

1. J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso STR5		1:19.919	 	26  	pit

2. P. de la Rosa	Sauber	C29		1:20.736	+0.817	17 	pit

3. A. Sutil		Force India VJM-03	1:21.428	+1.509	29 	pit

4. F. Massa		Ferrari	F10		1:21.603	+1.684	25 	pit

5. S. Vettel		Red Bull Racing	RB6	1:21.783	+1.864	33 	pit

6. V. Petrov		Renault	R30		1:22.000	+2.081	22 	 

7. N. Rosberg		Mercedes GP W01		1:22.820	+2.901	13 	pit

8. R. Barrichello	Williams FW32		1:23.217	+3.298	37 	pit

9. L. Hamilton		McLaren	MP4-25		1:23.985	+4.066	33 	pit

 

[cider_and_toast]

No sign of Virgin back on track then?

 

[snowy]

17:00

1. J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso STR5		1:19.919	 	76  	

2. P. de la Rosa	Sauber	C29		1:20.736	+0.817	58 	

3. A. Sutil		Force India VJM-03	1:21.428	+1.509	48 	

4. F. Massa		Ferrari	F10		1:21.603	+1.684	72 	

5. S. Vettel		Red Bull Racing	RB6	1:21.783	+1.864	59 	

6. V. Petrov		Renault	R30		1:22.000	+2.081	68 

7. N. Rosberg		Mercedes GP W01		1:22.820	+2.901	53 	

8. R. Barrichello	Williams FW32		1:23.217	+3.298	120 	

9. L. Hamilton		McLaren	MP4-25		1:23.985	+4.066	68 	

10. L. Di Grassi	Virgin Racing VR-01	1:37.107	+17.188	8

8 laps on a particularly wet track! But they did make it back to the pits in one piece, so definite improvement.

 

[snowy]

I am going to be praying for better weather tomorrow, I urge everyone to join me
and urge the Weather Gods to be kinder to our friends in the test teams, who have had a lot to put up with this week. os:

 

[cider_and_toast]

but according to the beeb website it's not looking good.

 

[snowy]

Day 4...

And our prayers have been answered! Unfortunately the answer was a decisive "NO YOU CAN'T HAVE A DRY TRACK!"

Fish of the day will be:
* J. Alguersuari (Toro Rosso)
* P. Martínez de la Rosa (BMW Sauber)
* M. Schumacher (Mercedes GP)
* S. Vettel (Red Bull)
* F. Massa (Ferrari)
* L. Hamilton (McLaren)
* R. Kubica (Renault)
* L. Di Grassi (Virgin GP)
* R.Barrichello (Williams)
* A. Sutil (Force India)

 

[snowy]

09:25cet

1. F. Massa		Ferrari	F10	1:28.299	 	5  	

2. R. Barrichello	Williams FW32	1:28.672	+0.373	3 	 

3. M. Schumacher	Mercedes W01	1:29.768	+40.379	3 	 

4. R. Kubica		Renault	R30	1:30.556	+2.257	4

 

[snowy]

Light rain still falling...

1. S. Vettel		Red Bull Racing	RB6	1:27.764	 	16  	  

2. R. Barrichello	Williams FW32		1:27.919	+0.155	8 	pit

3. F. Massa		Ferrari	F10		1:28.299	+0.535	11 	 

4. A. Sutil		Force India VJM-03	1:29.025	+1.261	6 	pit

5. M. Schumacher	Mercedes W01		1:29.768	+2.004	7 	pit

6. R. Kubica		Renault	R30		1:30.270	+2.506	6

 

[snowy]

First red flag of the day. Sebastien Vettel stops on track...

Autosport muses:

"Vettel had been out for a while - wonder if they opted for an 'out of fuel' run, as Rosberg did yesterday.

"Teams like to run the car out of fuel at least once to work out exactly how far they can push it. Don't know if that stopped Vettel though."

 

[snowy]

Weather may be improving, brighter skys on the horizon...

 

[snowy]

Circuit is beginning to dry

1 Hamilton	McLaren		1m26.833s

2 Vettel	Red Bull	1m27.764s  +0.931

3 Barrichello	Williams	1m27.919s  +1.086

4 Massa		Ferrari		1m28.299s  +1.466

5 Sutil		Force India	1m29.025s  +2.192

6 Schumacher	Mercedes	1m29.768s  +2.935

7 Kubica	Renault		1m30.270s  +3.437

8 De la Rosa	Sauber		1m30.811s  +3.978

9 Alguersuari	Toro Rosso	1m32.124s  +5.291

 

[snowy]

1. L. Hamilton		McLaren	MP4-25		1:26.833	 	9  	  

2. R. Barrichello	Williams FW32		1:27.657	+0.824	17 	pit

3. S. Vettel		Red Bull Racing	RB6	1:27.764	+0.931	23 	pit

4. F. Massa		Ferrari	F10		1:28.299	+1.466	25 	 

5. A. Sutil		Force India VJM-03	1:29.025	+2.192	27 	 

6. P. de la Rosa	Sauber	C29		1:29.698	+2.865	15 	 

7. M. Schumacher	Mercedes W01		1:29.768	+2.935	11 	pit

8. R. Kubica		Renault	R30		1:30.270	+3.437	6 	pit

9. J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso STR5		1:32.124	+5.291	23 	pit