There were some surprise's during day two of F1 testing in Barcelona today as Force India's Nico Hulkenberg ended the session fastest with a time of 1m 22.608s 0.283s fastest then reigning champion Sebastian Vettel who topped the timesheets this morning. During the afternoon session the teams took advantage of the great weather in Spain and carried out long runs with a lot of fuel on board.
It was a great day for Sauber and Sergio Perez who posted the second fastest time of the day for the Swiss team. From what I have seen so far many of team's are very evenly matched with very little between any of them. The top five drivers today were covered within a second.
Today marked the end of the Barcelona test for Vettel who hands the RB8 to Mark Webber who will test the car for the remainder of the week. Likewise over at McLaren Jenson Button will takeover from Lewis Hamilton.
It was another good day for Daniel Ricciardo who finished the session mid-table in fifth place just ahead of Lewis Hamilton and just behind Fernando Alonso. Kimi Raikkonen was due to take over from Romain Grosjean at Lotus tomorrow however that won't happen as the team returned to the UK last night after a fault was detected with their car, the team opted to miss the rest of this week's test.
I believe that this a put the team on the back foot as both their driver's having not raced in F1 since 2009 need to get as much mileage under their belt as possible and with the team absent from the test, it means that they only have from 1st - 4th March to iron out problems that they may have with the car before they are packed up and shipped to Melbourne for round 1 of the season.
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