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

[Galahad]

If memory serves me correctly, Vairano is just a straight-line testing venue (probably an airfield) so different rules apply.

 

[snowy]

No it's a very comprehensive test circuit with a wide variety of turns.

 

[Galahad]

In that case I stand corrected! I'm off for a lie down...

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

That's not to say that they can't be just doing straight line work though; after all, no-one's forcing them to go round the bend...

 

[Josephiah]

Genii: Heidfeld apparently has a cold, so Petrov in this afternoon!

A cold?! Man up Nick!

 

[sportsman]

No it's a very comprehensive test circuit with a wide variety of turns.

It is indeed.But it does have a very long 2km flat straight which is used for straight line areo testing.

 

[snowy]

Jenson takes to the track and does a 1:23.782.

It's just the one flying lap so that would suggest the car is no better than it was the last test!

 

[Enja]

A cold?! Man up Nick!

This is the same man that carries his man bag wherever he goes, so..

http://bit.ly/g27cKS

 

[snowy]

Mark Webber starts off with a 1:28.909... This could be the beginning of a race simulation.

 

[snowy]

Jenson improves to a 1:22.937.

He's on fire:And sporting conventional exhaust.

 

[snowy]

Mark Webber has the track all to himself, Looking more and more like a race simulation:

--:--.---
01:28.909
01:28.831
01:29.458
01:29.775
01:29.837
01:30.116
01:30.033
01:30.376
01:32.192
01:31.598
----

 

[snowy]

Θ. 	Driver		Team 		Best Lap 	Last lap 	Diff 	Laps

1 	M. Webber	Red Bull 	1:22.544 	1:30.116 		45

2 	J. Button	McLaren 	1:22.937 	1:22.937 	+0.393 	50

3 	N. Heidfeld	Renault 	1:24.735 	1:27.602 	+2.191 	20

4 	D. Valsecchi	Lotus 		1:25.406 	1:46.107 	+2.862 	50

5 	S. Perez	Sauber 		1:25.443 	1:26.893 	+2.899 	54

6 	N. Hulkenberg	Force India 	1:26.030 	1:26.090 	+3.486 	31

7 	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso 	1:26.087 	1:26.302 	+3.543 	11

8 	J. D'Ambrosio	Virgin 		1:32.060 	1:34.134 	+9.516 	34

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

All will be revealed tomorrow for HRT, that is when they are due to run. I guess the next question will be if the F111 will be running

 

[snowy]

L. Razia 1:22.687!

 

[snowy]

Webber pits after 10 laps...

And doesn't return to track, No race simulation...

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

erm Snowy.......

from autosport:
13:46 Razia pits after eight laps, his best a 1m34.467s

???

 

[snowy]

Jenson back on track, what this time?

Slightly quicker 1:22.910

 

[snowy]

Yes Andrea... there has been an amendment on my timing screen for Razia. Thank goodness for that, we can't have complete unknowns coming in and blasting the regular guys into the weeds!

It is a distinct possibility that lap belongs to Jenson Button

Button has managed another lap in the 1m22s, but around half a second off his best

 

[snowy]

Unfortunately the live timing does tend to be a little iffy straight after lunch, particularly if there is a driver change.

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

if it was it would of been buttons best time of the day, but thought it was very strange, that would of put him 12th on the grid for the 2010 race lol.

EDIT: thats wrong, but it would of been a lot faster tgen last year, with two old hands at the wheel.