Barcelona Day 4: Red Bull report
Feb.28 (YF1) Drivers: Sebastian Vettel/Mark Webber; Car: RB6-02; Laps: 137 (Vettel – 76; Webber – 61); Best time: Vettel: 1:20.667; Webber: 1:20.496); Circuit length: 4.655 km Fastest lap: L Hamilton (1:20.472) Having had less time on track than expected yesterday, Sebastian started for us this morning with Mark finishing our pre-season preparations in the afternoon. [...]
Barcelona Day 4: Toro Rosso report
Feb.28 (YF1) Driver: Sébastien Buemi; Chassis: STR5-02; Best time: 1:22.135, 88 laps At the end of the session, Sébastien said: “I am pleased with my two days here. Today, we concentrated on doing a scan of various mechanical set-up options as well as some aero work. Overall, I think we are in good shape and [...]
Barcelona Day 4: Renault report
Feb.28 (YF1) Dry and sunny weather in Barcelona gave good testing conditions. With Robert Kubica in the cockpit of the Renault R30, the team lost some track time in the morning with a technical problem, but covered good mileage in the afternoon. Robert Kubica: “In the morning we lost a lot of track time with [...]
Barcelona Day 4: Mercedes GP report
Feb.28 (YF1) Michael Schumacher was at the wheel of the MGP W01 car today to conclude this week’s four-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona and complete his own on-track preparations for the new season. Michael spent the morning focusing on qualifying simulations and developing the set-up of the car before working on [...]
Barcelona Day 4: McLaren report
Feb.28 (YF1) Final day of pre-season testing. Lewis Hamilton was back in the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, continuing the understanding, evaluation and development of new components that Jenson had started yesterday. With a more innate understanding of the new package, Lewis’s engineers were able to spend the morning fine-tuning MP4-25’s set-up while also carrying out a [...]
Barcelona Day 4: Force India report
Feb.28 (YF1) Adrian Sutil brought the Force India F1 Team’s 2010 winter testing programme to a close at the Circuit de Catalunya today. The German ended the testing, in the VJM03, on a high with the fourth quickest time in the of the day, 0.139secs behind Lewis Hamilton. Adrian worked through a full race programme [...]
Barcelona Day 4: Sauber report
Feb.28 (YF1) On the final day of pre-season testing Kamui Kobayashi was again on duty in the C29 for the BMW Sauber F1 Team. A gear box problem cost about two hours of track time before lunch. In the afternoon the team tried to catch up with the programme, but had to contend with an [...]
Barcelona Day 4: Lotus report
Feb.28 (YF1) Hot weather in Barcelona provided the backdrop for the final day of testing on track for the Lotus Racing team before the 2010 Formula 1™ season kicks off in earnest. Heikki Kovalainen took the Lotus Cosworth T127 for its final session as the test season drew to a close and completed a total [...]
Mosley, Fernandes back Branson over Ferrari outburst
Feb.28 (GMM) Tony Fernandes and Max Mosley have backed Sir Richard Branson against Ferrari’s outburst about new teams in formula one. After the famous Italian team slammed the former FIA president and the small incoming teams, Virgin owner Branson said the ‘Horse Whisperer’ column was “sad”. On a flying visit to the final pre-season test [...]
