Vettel encouraged by Red Bull progress made at Mugello
May.4 (Apex) World champion Sebastian Vettel declared himself content with the work completed and objectives achieved at the end of three days testing at Mugello circuit near Florence. Vettel completed 106 laps, ending the day second quickest, in the Red Bull RB8, and declared, “It’s been a useful couple of days and I’ve enjoyed the [...]
Grosjean: We were not looking specifically to try to top the times
May.4 (Apex) Romain Grosjean topped the timing screens on both days on which he was on duty in the Lotus E20 cockpit, of which his time on the final day was the fastest of all at Mugello this week, but the Frenchman claimed that the team were not targeting fastest lap times. Speaking at the [...]
Rosberg: We do need to improve our car in fast corner
May.4 (Apex) Mercedes racked up 1715 kilometres over the course of three days of testing at Mugello, and one of the overriding conclusions by Nico Rosberg is that the team’s W03 is lacking speed in fast corners of which the Ferrari owned circuit in Tuscany has more than a few. Summing up his final day [...]
Perez treated after his Sauber goes up in smoke in Mugello pitlane
May 4 (GMM) Sergio Perez had to be treated at Mugello on Thursday following a smoky pitlane incident, on the final day of official F1 testing at the Italian track. Blick newspaper reports that, early on the final day of the rare in season test, “acrid black smoke” emanated from Sauber’s upgraded C31 car at [...]
Alonso: There is no magic button but I am confident for the future
May.4 (Apex) Fernando Alonso endured the inconvenience of a mild off on the final day of testing at Mugello which cost him a couple hours of track time, on a day that the Ferrari F2012 sported some significant upgrades which appear to have instilled renewed confidence in the Spaniard. At the end of the day [...]
Pirelli review Mugello testing
May.3 (Pirelli Press Release) The Formula One teams have benefitted from extra running with Pirelli’s 2012 tyres at the first in-season test to take place since 2008. The three-day session took place at Mugello in Italy – where Pirelli’s prototype Formula One tyres ran for the first time in August 2010. The teams were allowed [...]
Marussia: We have made another positive step forward
May.3 (Marussia Press Release) The weather and reliability of the MR01 conspired to ensure that today was a day of ‘two’ halves for the Marussia F1 Team in Mugello as Timo Glock attacked his testing programme with gusto. Timo achieved 110 laps in the MR01-01 as he worked his way through a wide-ranging programme exploring [...]
Mercedes: The team completed 1715 kms over the three days
May.3 (Mercedes Press Release) Nico Rosberg completed the third and final day of the Mugello test for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team today. Nico and the team spent the day concentrating on further tyre and set-up evaluations with the F1 W03 A second very productive day saw Nico complete 129 laps, equal to over 670 [...]
Ferrari: Experimenting with some new aerodynamic components
May.3 (Ferrari Press Release) Third and final day of testing for eleven teams today at the Mugello Circuit: Fernando Alonso was back on track for Scuderia Ferrari. Today’s programme centred on experimenting with some new aerodynamic components introduced on the F2012, as well as a study of the behaviour of the Pirelli tyres. An off-track [...]