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

[snowy]

1 	Alonso 		Ferrari		1.25.485

2 	Alguersuari 	Toro Rosso 	1.26.117

3 	Button 		McLaren		1.26.365

4 	Vettel 		Red Bull	1.26.640

5 	Barrichello 	Williams	1.27.447

6 	Schumacher 	Mercedes 	1.27.661

7 	Kovalainen 	Team Lotus 	1.30.464

8 	D'Ambrosio 	Virgin 		1.32.068

9 	Karthikeyan 	HRT 		1.32.396

10 	Kobayashi 	Sauber		1.36.264

11 	Heidfeld 	Lotus Renault 	1.44.324

 

[snowy]

Any news on Luizzi, reports are that he will drive for HRT over the weekend.

I don't know how true that is. Narain Karthikeyan is officially down for all four days, so there wouldn't be a problem fitting him in I suppose.

 

[tooncheese]

According to this site (In some weird langauge) they've all gone for lunch, restart is at 1 o'clock.

http://www.f1-direct.fr/live-essais-prives.php

No sign of FI yet today either.

 

[snowy]

That weird language is French, it is spoken by over 136 million people as a first language and over 500 million as a second, third or fourth. I'm surprised you didn't recognise it.

 

[snowy]

PS: I have no facility with languages, even English is a struggle for me. I consider this one of the most tragic things in my tragic life...

 

[F1Yorkshire]

A spokesperson for the Circuit de Catalunya says Red Bull have already asked on behalf of all the teams if the track would be available to stage the fourth test if necessary. And the answer is, yes.

Would this 4th test be arranged for next week? I'm hoping so as I'm in Barcelona from next Wednesday till Sunday.

 

[snowy]

Air temperature, a balmy 15°c and the track 29°c.

 

[teabagyokel]

A spokesperson for the Circuit de Catalunya says Red Bull have already asked on behalf of all the teams if the track would be available to stage the fourth test if necessary. And the answer is, yes.

So Red Bull aren't convinced by Bernie's "The revolution will blow over" schtick!

[bg=#0055A4]Drape[/bg]au tric[bg=#EF4135]olour![/bg]

 

[snowy]

Lots of cars on track after a short red flag brought about by Kamui stopping out on circuit speculation has it he deliberately ran out of fuel.

 

[snowy]

Drapeau rouge !

Alguesuari this time

 

[snowy]

Drapeau vert !

That was quick!

 

[snowy]

Jenson Button on track for the first time since lunch.

I told you these guys eat too much!

 

[snowy]

What nonsense! They crediting di Resta with Fernando's fastest lap and 51 laps of Lord knows who! You just can't get the staff these days...

 

[snowy]

1.	Alonso		Ferrari		1:25.485			61		

2.	Alguersuari	Toro Rosso	1:26.117	+ 0.632		49		

3.	Button		McLaren		1:26.365	+ 0.880		42		

4.	Vettel		Red Bull Racing	1:26.640	+ 1.155		23		

5.	Kobayashi	Sauber		1:27.340	+ 1.855		47		

6.	Barrichello	Williams	1:27.447	+ 1.962		43		

7.	Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1:27.512	+ 2.027		41		

8.	Karthikeyan	HRT F1 Team	1:28.393	+ 2.908		85		

9.	Kovalainen	Lotus F1	1:30.065	+ 4.580		54		

10.	di Resta	Force India	1:31.383	+ 5.898		6		

11.	D'Ambrosio	Virgin Racing	1:32.068	+ 6.583		74		

12.	Heidfeld	Lotus Renault 	1:44.324	+ 18.839	27	

 

[teabagyokel]

Heidfeld 18 seconds off the pace...

That better be a symptom of testing, because if he does that in Bahrain Australia there'll be trouble!

 

[snowy]

Heidfeld spent the morning practising pitstops.

 

[snowy]

Vitaly is sitting waiting for Lotus Renault to sort out his KERs, they are hoping to send him out soon.

 

[teabagyokel]

Last year pit-stops in Catalunya were around 20 seconds in the lane from speed limit line to speed limit line.

 

[Galahad]

Last year pit-stops in Catalunya were around 20 seconds in the lane from speed limit line to speed limit line.

But the timing beam for the end of the lap is midway between the two, so...

 

[teabagyokel]

But the timing beam for the end of the lap is midway between the two, so...

Wouldn't all of his laps have been affected by the same thing if he's come in on all of them?