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The Virgin Racing VR-01 has made its official track debut with Timo Glock. He completed an installation lap.

5 hours into the session and the track remains damp with light rain falling. Lap times haven't improved

Still damp conditions at Jerez with 2 hours remaining in the session. The top times have been set during the first hour of the session.

Best times so far:
Rosberg - Mercedes: 1:20.927
Buemi - Toro Rosso: 1:21.031
Hulkenberg - Williams: 1:22.243
Alonso - Ferrari: 1:22.895
Kobayashi - Sauber: 1:23.787
Button - McLaren: 1:24.947
Liuzzi - Force India: 1:24.968
Petrov - Renault: 1:25.440
Webber - Red Bull: 1:26.502

The first day of testing at Jerez ended with no improvements on the laptimes set in the first hour.

The session was interrupted late in the day by a stoppage from the Merecedes.

Jerez - Day 1

Driver - Team - Best Laptime - Total Laps
Rosberg - Mercedes - 1:20.927 - 57
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:21.031 - 84
Hulkenberg - Williams - 1:22.243 - 118
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:22.895 - 88
Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:23.787 - 55
Button - McLaren - 1:24.947 - 68
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:24.968 - 71
Petrov - Renault - 1:25.440 - 27
Webber - Red Bull - 1:26.502 - 50
Glock - Virgin - 1:38.734 - 5

Weather is expected to better on Thursday!

Anyone have any news on which drivers are likely to be testing in Jerez on friday and saturday this week? I hear Alonso will be there tomorrow

brawn2bwild wrote:Anyone have any news on which drivers are likely to be testing in Jerez on friday and saturday this week? I hear Alonso will be there tomorrow

Some of the teams will have the other driver for the second two days however others are alternating. The confirmed are:

Rosberg (Fri), Schumacher (Sat) - Mercedes
Vettel - Red Bull
Massa - Ferrari
de la Rosa - Sauber
Sutil - Force India

Likely:
Hamilton - McLaren
Barrichello - Williams

For Renault, Kubica is taking over on Thursday and the team has yet to confirm who will be testing on the last two days. It is possible that Kubica will continue as he is far more experienced. The same may apply with Glock at Virgin and Buemi at Toro Rosso

Second day of testing at Jerez. The session started under damp track conditions but the weather is fine.

The laps times continue to fall and the order after 2.5 hours is:

Driver - Team - Best Laptime
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:20.504
Button - McLaren - 1:21.528
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:22.344
Kubica - Renault - 1:23.046
Webber - Red Bull - 1:23.164
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:23.823
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:24.120
Kobayashi - Sauber - 124.406
Glock - Virgin - 1:29.964

So far there have been 2 red flags. One due to a problem with Hulkenburg's Williams and the other due to debris on the track

Looks like the debris was from Glock's Virgin Racing car

3 hours into the session and the order is:

Driver - Team - Best Lap time
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:20.504
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:21.403
Button - McLaren - 1:21.528
Kubica - Renault - 1:22.129
Webber - Red Bull - 1:23.164
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:23.265
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:24.120
Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:24.406
Glock - Virgin - 1:29.964

LATEST TIMES
1 Buemi Toro Rosso 1m20.026s
2 Button McLaren 1m20.618s +0.592
3 Hulkenberg Williams 1m21.823s +1.797
4 Schumacher Mercedes 1m21.907s +1.881
5 Alonso Ferrari 1m21.928s +1.902
6 Kubica Renault 1m22.129s +2.103
7 Liuzzi Force India 1m23.004s +2.978
8 Webber Red Bull 1m23.164s +3.138
9 Kobayashi Sauber 1m23.193s +3.167
10 Glock Virgin 1m29.964s +9.938
All timing unofficial. Updated: 12:05 GMT

From Auto Sport.

Good to see McLaren near the front, and the 4 & 5 postions being off the pace

Not that you can read anything into this. 10kg of fule = 0.3 of a second and they can have upto 240kg fuel?

In the past hour Buemi improved on the fastest time of the day setting a 1:20.026.

Driver - Team - Best Lap time
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:20.026
Button - McLaren - 1:20.618
Hulkenberg - Williams - 1:21.823
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:21.907
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:21.928
Kubica - Renault - 1:22.129
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:23.004
Webber - Red Bull - 1:23.164
Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:23.193
Glock - Virgin - 1:29.964

It has emerged that the Virgin Racing team will not return to the track due to lack of spare parts following a front wing failure.

Two more hours remain in the session and the best lap times so far are:

Driver - Team - Best Lap time
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:20.026
Button - McLaren - 1:20.618
Hulkenberg - Williams - 1:20.637
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:21.571
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:21.907
Kubica - Renault - 1:22.003
Webber - Red Bull - 1:22.087
Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:22.764
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:22.886
Glock - Virgin - 1:29.964

Final hour of testing at Jerez. Buemi remains at the top of the timesheets

Driver - Team - Best Lap time
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:20.026
Button - McLaren - 1:20.618
Hulkenberg - Williams - 1:20.629
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:20.754
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:21.571
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:21.907
Kubica - Renault - 1:22.003
Webber - Red Bull - 1:22.043
Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:22.444
Glock - Virgin - 1:29.964

With just minutes to go until the end of the session there was yet another red flag. This time it was Button who stopped on the track. It is now unlikely that the session will be restarted

The best lap times for today are:

Driver - Team - Best Lap time - Laps
Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:19.950 - 103
Buemi - Toro Rosso - 1:20.026 - 121
Button - McLaren - 1:20.618 - 83
Hulkenberg - Williams - 1:20.629 - 67
Liuzzi - Force India - 1:20.754 - 80
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:21.083 - 124
Alonso - Ferrari - 1:21.445 - 129
Kubica - Renault - 1:22.003 - 103
Webber - Red Bull - 1:22.043 - 99
Glock - Virgin - 1:29.964 - 11

Thanks, Ed, for keeping us posted. Odd results on this second, slightly damp, day! Alonso in the lower half!! The Sauber/Ferrari almost stealing the day! the Merc's WAY DOWN.

must be they're all sand-bagging!

I wonder how tomorrow will go?

jim watt