Mercedes GP AMG became the final top team to unveil their new car the Mercedes GP AMG W03, the car that they hope will bring the team success in 2012. The team will have the same lineup of Michael Schumacher who is in his final year of a three year deal and he will be once again be partnered by Nico Rosberg who has consistently outperformed the former champion during their time at Mercedes GP.
Just like the majority of the 2012 cars with the exception of McLaren the Mercedes features a stepped nose. The car was unveiled to the media in Barcelona this morning just before day two of testing got underway. Sebastian Vettel was fastest this morning for RedBull while Michael Schumacher was 6th in the new Mercedes.
It was has been a very poor start to the second week of pre-season testing for the Lotus team as a chassis problem has forced Romain Grosjean to cut his test programme short for the day. Today was the first day of testing for the second Lotus chassis the E20-02 which has been sent back to the team's Enstone base for checks. The team are sending the E20-01 to Barcelona and it is due to arrive tomorrow on time for the second day of testing.
The issue is a set back for the team who started testing so strongly in Jerez two weeks ago. They will be hoping that this is the only issue that they face with only the rest of this week and a test in Barcelona in early March before the season gets underway in Australia on March 18th.
Kimi Raikkonen takes to the track in Barcelona on Thursday and Friday. I will be back later today with an update at the conclusion of today's session.
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