Pre-Season BARCELONA TEST 18th-21st Feb 2011

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Cheers Sportsman.

Though I still have an hour to wait!

 

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Schuey, Nick and pastor are the first to return to business after lunch.

 

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They all return to the pits after a very short time.

 

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Jarno Trulli will not be returning to the track this afternoon.

That's one less chicane to negotiate...

 

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Schuey, Felipe, Adrian, Pastor and Mark are on track, but I'm not sure what lap times the are doing cause the Greecians don't appear to be back from lunch yet

 

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Θ. 	Driver		Team 		Best Lap 	Last lap 	Diff 	Laps

1 	M. Webber	Red Bull 	1:23.442 	1:30.797 		31

2 	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso 	1:23.550 	1:35.363 	+0.108 	55

3 	P. Maldonado	Williams 	1:24.057 	1:34.368 	+0.615 	55

4 	A. Sutil	Force India 	1:24.226 	1:27.863 	+0.784 	42

5 	F. Massa	Ferrari 	1:24.929 	1:29.667 	+1.487 	72

6 	L. Hamilton	McLaren 	1:25.094 	1:25.181 	+1.652 	66

7 	N. Heidfeld	Renault 	1:26.203 	1:32.838 	+2.761 	27

8 	S. Perez	Sauber 		1:26.914 	1:29.261 	+3.472 	48

9 	M. Schumacher	Mercedes 	1:27.079 	1:28.955 	+3.637 	68

10 	J. Trulli	Team Lotus 	1:29.992 			

11 	J. D'Ambrosio	Virgin 		1:31.713 		

 

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Still no sign of Lewis on track this afternoon...

 

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There's no gossip about what any of the teams might be planning for this afternoon, that I have heard about either.

Anybody got anything they want to tell me?

 

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Nick Heidfeld will simulate a race distance on new and scrubbed tyres!

 

[Galahad]

Anybody got anything they want to tell me?

Apparently Mercedes will be trying out their "second generation" energy recovery system - harnessing the solar energy that shines out of Schumacher's a**e.

 

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I believe Nick is on about lap 8 of his race simulation. Unfortunately I can't tell for sure as the Greeks who have served me so well and diligently these past weeks have lost the plot and currently feeding no laps and erratic information on their main Live Timer.

 

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Lewis is apparently carrying out a cooling test! Whatever that is.

 

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They are showing Hamilton as on track and Nicks lap counter has shot up from 28 to 41, so they may be recovering some sort of normality.

 

[Jru]

Lewis is apparently carrying out a cooling test! Whatever that is.

Currently chilling at the back of the garage

 

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Yes!

But no they've lost Nicks early laps...

28 1:32.838
41 1:33.107 +0.269
42 1:29.988 -3.119
43 1:29.710 -0.278

 

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5Live says the Bahrain test has been cancelled.

No kidding.

 

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1 	M. Webber	Red Bull 	1:23.442 	1:32.453 		44

2 	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso 	1:23.550 	1:27.660 	+0.108 	62

3 	P. Maldonado	Williams 	1:24.057 	1:33.096 	+0.615 	73

4 	A. Sutil	Force India 	1:24.226 	1:27.863 	+0.784 	42

5 	F. Massa	Ferrari 	1:24.929 	1:29.302 	+1.487 	86

6 	L. Hamilton	McLaren 	1:25.094 	1:25.181 	+1.652 	68

7 	N. Heidfeld	Renault 	1:26.203 	1:30.155 	+2.761 	45

8 	S. Perez	Sauber 		1:26.914 	1:29.261 	+3.472 	48

9 	M. Schumacher	Mercedes 	1:27.079 	1:31.316 	+3.637 	75

10 	J. Trulli	Team Lotus 	1:29.992 		

11 	J. D'Ambrosio	Virgin 		1:31.713 		

 

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Lewis and Sebastien are the only guys not on track.

 

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Nicks race simulation:
Heidfeld
1-14 no data

1-14 no data

41 	1:33.107 	+0.269

42 	1:29.988 	-3.119

43 	1:29.710 	-0.278

44 	1:30.080 	+0.37

45 	1:30.155 	+0.075

46 	1:29.953 	-0.202

47 	1:30.572 	+0.619

48 	1:31.855 	+1.283

49 	1:30.746 	-1.109

50 	1:30.925 	+0.179

51 	1:30.888 	-0.037

52 	1:30.995 	+0.107

53 	1:31.834 	+0.839