Barcelona Day 3: McLaren report
Feb.27 (YF1) Final day’s running for Jenson Button in the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-25 before the season kicks off in Bahrain in two weeks’ time. The morning’s session was affected by rain showers, which compromised running and limited the team’s learning of a number of new components. As a result, the morning was spent conducting [...]
Barcelona Day 3: Sauber report
Feb.27 (YF1) The BMW Sauber F1 Team’s second race simulation with Makui Kobayashi at the wheel of the BMW Ssauber C29 was run under changing weather conditions with light rain on and off. After the lunch break Kamui Kobayashi continued to do some set-up work. Kamui Kobayashi: “Certainly it would have been more convenient to [...]
Barcelona Day 3: Williams report
Feb.27 (YF1) Rubens Barrichello joined the team in Barcelona today for day three of this week’s four day test in Spain. As predicted, rain caused disruptions to this morning’s work, and several red flags, but made way for some valuable dry running after the lunch break. The team concentrated on set-up work with the FW32 [...]
Barcelona Day 3: Lotus report
Feb.27 (YF1) The morning sunshine gave way to grey conditions and light rain in Barcelona as the Lotus Racing T127 completed a successful third day of testing. By lunchtime Jarno Trulli had already completed 60 laps, and went on consistently throughout the day to finish on a total of 102 laps. The team completed a [...]
Rosberg fastest on day three and makes a point
Feb.27 (YF1) Nico Rosberg, driving the Mercedes MGP W01, made a point on day three of testing in Barcelona by setting the fastest lap of the day and racking up more laps then anybody else with 128 tours on his lap chart. Only 24 hours earlier his illustrious team mate, comeback world champion, Michael Schumacher [...]
Schumi’s pessimism makes way for optimism
Feb.27 (GMM) Michael Schumacher on Saturday steered away from claims his 2010 car might not be a winning one. When asked 24 hours ago whether the W01 Mercedes car will travel to Bahrain next month as the favourite, he told reporters at the Barcelona test: “Maybe not.” But as he spoke to the media again [...]
GP2 Asia: Pic wins race two in Bahrain
Feb.27 (YF1) Charles Pic bagged his first GP2 Asia win today in Bahrain sprint race after overtaking initial race leader Adrian Zaugg on Lap 4 and then pulling away from his closest rivals Giacomo Ricci and Javier Villa. Today’s polesitter on the reversed grid Zaugg took off perfectly and kept the lead coming out of [...]
Alonso: “We’ve done some great work”
Feb.27 (YF1) In the end there were over 21,000 spectators in Barcelona to cheer on Fernando Alonso on his last day of testing. The Spanish fans’ enthusiasm was further augmneted by their idol’s good performance in a race simulation and setting the second fastest lap time of the day. Alonso completed 133 laps before he [...]
Branson: “Ferrari should welcome new teams”
Feb.27 (GMM) Sir Richard Branson is in the Barcelona paddock on Saturday, and he made clear his distaste for Ferrari’s recent outburst. Ferrari’s ‘Horse Whisperer’ column poured scorn on the new wave of struggling small teams in formula one, including Branson’s Virgin Racing. “I think it’s a bit sad to see Ferrari carrying on with [...]