Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets on day three of pre-season testing in Jerez today. The German is currently evaluating Pirelli's 2012-spec tyres with the 2011 Mercedes GP car. Taking over from team-mate Michael Schumacher who was fastest yesterday. Rosberg completed 118 laps with a fastest time of 1.17.613s 0.806s ahead of F1 returnee Romain Grosjean who took over driving duties from Lotus team Mate Kimi Raikkonen.
Grosjean set a fastest time of 1.18.419s completing 117 laps and was the fastest of the 2012 cars just ahead of the RedBull of reigning champion Sebastien Vettel who completed his first day of pre-season testing in the RB8.
The Jerez test session concludes tomorrow morning
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Schumacher tops day two with 2011 Mercedes
Michael Schumacher topped the time sheets on day of pre-season testing at Jerez. Schumacher, driving the 2011 Mercedes with 2012-spec Pirelli tyres completed 132 laps setting a fastest time of 1.18.561s, Mark Webber was second for RedBull on his last day before handing over driving duties to Sebastien Vettel tomorrow.
Yesterday's pace setter Kimi Raikkonen finished the day 5th overall with a best time of 1.20.239s. The Finn endured a difficult second day running wide onto the gravel in the morning causing slight damage to his Lotus E20. He makes way for Romain Grosjean tomorrow but will be back behind the wheel of the Lotus for the second preseason test in Barcelona on Tuesday 21st February.
It has been a great return for the Iceman so we shall see how Romain Grosjean fairs tomorrow.
Testing continues tomorrow morning,
Yesterday's pace setter Kimi Raikkonen finished the day 5th overall with a best time of 1.20.239s. The Finn endured a difficult second day running wide onto the gravel in the morning causing slight damage to his Lotus E20. He makes way for Romain Grosjean tomorrow but will be back behind the wheel of the Lotus for the second preseason test in Barcelona on Tuesday 21st February.
It has been a great return for the Iceman so we shall see how Romain Grosjean fairs tomorrow.
Testing continues tomorrow morning,
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Raikkonen tops day one of Winter testing at Jerez
Kimi Raikkonen made a successful return to track action as testing for the 2012 Formula One season got underway today in Jerez. The Finn, who is making a return to the sport with Lotus after two season's away from the sport completed 75 laps of the Jerez circuit and recorded a best time of 1m 19.670s just ahead of Force India's Paul Di Resta.
In setting the fastest time of the opening day of testing Kimi was faster then amy of the times set at the the circuit throughout pre-seson testing in 2011.
The Finn will continue his test programme for tomorrow before handing over to team mate Romain Grosjean on Thursday
In setting the fastest time of the opening day of testing Kimi was faster then amy of the times set at the the circuit throughout pre-seson testing in 2011.
The Finn will continue his test programme for tomorrow before handing over to team mate Romain Grosjean on Thursday
Williams launch FW34 at Jerez
The Williams F1 team rolled out their 2012 car. The Renault powered FW34 was unveiled this morning by Pastor Maldonado and new driver Bruno Senna who replaces Rubens Barrichello for 2012. This year Williams have teamed up with Renault. The team will be hoping that this new partnership will be able to re live some of the success that the team had with Renault during the 1990's when the team won back to championship's with Renault power in 1996 and 97.
The team will be hoping for a far better 2012 season after suffering heir worst performance in the sport last year when they finished 9th in the constructors championship only scoring 5 points..
Raikkonen fastest in initial shakedown at Jerez.
Lotus have made a great start to pre-season winter testing at Jerez with Kimi Raikkonen as the Finn set the fastest time of the morning following an initial shakedown of the Lotus E20. On Monday the Finn ran the E20 for the first time for filming purposes and was extremely happy with the car despite the fact that he never made it out of second gear due to the regulations layed our when filming.
Kimi completed 22 laps and was very happy with the car however he said that the team would not see how the car performs on Tuesday as the first test got underway
Kimi completed 22 laps and was very happy with the car however he said that the team would not see how the car performs on Tuesday as the first test got underway
Monday, 6 February 2012
Toro Rosso launches 2012 car at Jerez.
Toro Rosso became the seventh team to unveil their 2012 Formula One challenger the Ferrari powered STR7, they joined Sauber and RedBull Racing who also launched their 2012 car's on Monday (See previous post). The launch also saw the presentation of the team's all-new 2012 driver line-up to the assembled media.
Australian Daniel Ricciardo joins the team from HRT, while French RedBull backed Jean Eric Vergne who performed extremely well at the young driver test for RedBull Racing in Abu Dhabi at the conclusion of the 2011 season.So it will be interesting to see how this new driver pairing performs over the course of the season. Pre-season testing gets underway in Jerez tomorrow morning.
Lotus, Toro Rosso, Sauber, Williams, McLaren, Ferrari, Caterham, Force India, and RedBull will all be running their new car's. Mercedes and HRT will be running their 2011 spec car's. The Mrussia team are not in attendance.
All the team's will run their new cars in Barcelona the site of the next test
Australian Daniel Ricciardo joins the team from HRT, while French RedBull backed Jean Eric Vergne who performed extremely well at the young driver test for RedBull Racing in Abu Dhabi at the conclusion of the 2011 season.So it will be interesting to see how this new driver pairing performs over the course of the season. Pre-season testing gets underway in Jerez tomorrow morning.
Lotus, Toro Rosso, Sauber, Williams, McLaren, Ferrari, Caterham, Force India, and RedBull will all be running their new car's. Mercedes and HRT will be running their 2011 spec car's. The Mrussia team are not in attendance.
All the team's will run their new cars in Barcelona the site of the next test
Busy day of car launches ahead of day one of pre-season testing
Today was extremely busy day for Formula One with not one but two 2012 car launches as defending champions RedBull Racing revealed their new Renault powered RB8, the car they hope will help them to continue their dominance of the sport and give them their third championship double in a row. For 2012 the team retain the driver pairing of world champion Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber. Sebastien Buemi joins the team as their official test and reserve driver after being replaced at Toro Rosso for the 2012 season. We shall see how the team get's on when Mark Webber takes to the track in the new car for the opening day of testing tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile The Sauber F1 team have also taken the wraps off their new car the C31. The team have retained the services of Japan's Kamui Kobayashi and Mexican Sergio Perez who was very impressive in his debut season for the tteam in 2011. For 2012 the team will be hoping to build on their 7th place finsih in the2011 championship.
Meanwhile The Sauber F1 team have also taken the wraps off their new car the C31. The team have retained the services of Japan's Kamui Kobayashi and Mexican Sergio Perez who was very impressive in his debut season for the tteam in 2011. For 2012 the team will be hoping to build on their 7th place finsih in the2011 championship.
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