Red Bull Racing celebrate at Milton Keynes HQ
Nov.20 (Red Bull Racing) Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber got two long, sustained ovations when they arrived at the Red Bull Racing headquarters in Milton Keynes on the second leg of the celebratory home-coming tour. Having visited Red Bull’s Salzburg HQ on Monday, the next day Vettel, Webber, Adrian Newey and Christian Horner were able [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Red Bull report
Nov.19 (Red Bull Racing) Sebastian was back at the wheel of an RB6 today at the Yas Marina Circuit testing next season’s Pirelli tyres. The team had four sets of Pirelli tyres available for the first day to discover how they worked with the car. Sebastian Vettel said: “It was all about the tyres today, [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Ferrari report
Nov.19 (Ferrari) This was an important day for Formula 1 as it marked the return of Pirelli tyres to an official test on track. For Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, it fell to Felipe Massa to be the first to try the new tyres. The Brazilian completed a total of 94 laps, the quickest in a time [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: McLaren report
Nov.19 (Vodafone McLaren Mercedes) Team report from the first day of Pirelli Formula 1 tyre testing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Date Friday November 19 2010 Driver Gary Paffett Location Yas Marina circuit Track length 5.554km Laps completed 94 Kilometres covered 522km Best laptime 1m40.874s Programme First test for the team of [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Hispania report
Nov.19 (Hispania Racing) The Pirelli tyres were tried out for the first time today at the tests in the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. It was just after 9 o´clock in the morning when Pastor Maldonado drove the Hispania Racing car out of the box with the new Pirelli tyres on for the first [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Virgin Racing report
Nov.19 (Virgin Racing) No sooner has the 2010 season reached it conclusion than the teams were back on track today with the first preparations for 2011. After a one day break following this week’s Young Driver Test, running resumed at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi today with the first of two days of [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Renault report
Nov.19 (Renault) The team began working with Pirelli tyres for the first time today as Robert Kubica got back behind the wheel of the R30 in Abu Dhabi. Circuit: Abu Dhabi Length: 5.5 km Driver: Robert Kubica Classification: P5 Chassis: R30-03 Total Laps: 39 laps Fastest Lap: 1:41.032 Robert Kubica: “It’s always interesting to test [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Williams report
Nov.19 (AT&T Williams) Team and driver report from the first day of Pirelli Formula 1 tyre testing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Driver: Rubens Barrichello Chassis / engine: FW32-01 / CA224 Location: Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. 5.554km / 3.451 miles Objectives: Aero testing, baseline runs and tyre evaluations Weather: Warm and [...]
Pirelli Test Day 1: Mercedes GP report
Nov.19 (Mercedes GP Petronas) Preparations for the 2011 season with new Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli got underway at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi today with Nico Rosberg as the first of the Mercedes GP Petronas drivers to evaluate the new tyres. Nico’s programme for today was to complete an initial performance evaluation [...]