2010 Formula 1 Pre-season testing

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Barrichello improves the best time with a 1:21.334

Ferrari say that Massa's stop was a precautionary one!

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A 1:20.971 for Michael Schumacher to top the timesheets

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Schumacher improves his time further with 1:20.613 but following that he stops on the track. That is the 3rd red flag of the session

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Schumacher retuns to the track quickly. It looks like the problem was a minor one

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With under 2 hours remaining, the best laptimes are:

Driver - Team - Best Lap time
Barrichello - Williams - 1:20.341
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:20.613
Massa - Ferrari - 1:21.850
Kubica - Renault - 1:22.120
de la Rosa - Sauber - 1:22.635
Sutil - Force India - 1:22.709
Vettel - Red Bull - 1:22.752
Hamilton - McLaren - 1:23.365
Alguersuari - Toro Rosso - 1:25.490
di Grassi - Virgin - 1:25.68

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Sutil goes fastest with a 1:20.325

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30 minutes remaining in the session and Sutil remains fastest ahead of Barrichello and Schumacher

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With less the 10 minutes remaining, Hamilton tops the timesheets with a 1:19.684

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The 4th and final day of testing at Jerez is over and it is Lewis Hamilton who has topped the timesheets ahead of Adrian Sutil and Rubens Barrichello.

The fastest times are:

Driver - Team - Best Lap time - Laps
Hamilton - McLaren - 1:19.583 - 113
Sutil - Force India - 1:20.180 - 84
Barrichello - Williams - 1:20.341 - 90
Kubica - Renault - 1:20.358 - 86
Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:20.613 - 84
Vettel - Red Bull - 1:21.203 - 90
Massa - Ferrari - 1:21.485 - 160
de la Rosa - Sauber - 1:22.134 - 105
di Grassi - Virgin - 1:22.912 - 63
Alguersuari - Toro Rosso - 1:24.072 - 98

The next test session is on the 17th of February also at Jerez

[Jim Watt]

Hmm. Interesting times here. Showing two Merc engines and a Cosworth at the top. Maybe I'll have to eat my words about the Cosies being moving chicanes! Also interesting that the 'works' Merc with the 7 time WDC at the wheel could only manage fifth and that behind a Cosworth powered machine and a Renault.

And the best Seb. V. could manage was behind Schuey!

Testing: it's always an exercise in who can fool who. And me, I'm easy to trick. I always want the red cars near the front and so I'm down when they are slow

Maybe in the next session!

Jim Watt

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Testing: it's always an exercise in who can fool who. And me, I'm easy to trick. I always want the red cars near the front and so I'm down when they are slow
Jim Watt

Well Alguersuari in the Toro Rosso was fastest on Friday with a 1:19.919 yet slowest on Saturday with a 1:24.072!!!

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Here is the confirmed line-up so far for the next test starting Wednesday the 17th again at Jerez:

Wednesday:
McLaren - Lewis Hamilton
Ferrari - Felipe Massa
BMW Sauber - Pedro de la Rosa
Toro Rosso - Sebastien Buemi
Renualt - Vitaly Petrov
Force India - Paul di Resta
Mercedes - TBC
Williams - TBC
Red Bull - TBC
Virgin - TBC
Lotus -TBC

Thursday:
McLaren - Lewis Hamilton
Ferrari - Felipe Massa
BMW Sauber - Pedro de la Rosa
Toro Rosso - Sebastien Buemi
Renualt - Vitaly Petrov
Force India - TBC
Mercedes - TBC
Williams - TBC
Red Bull - TBC
Virgin - TBC
Lotus -TBC

Friday:
McLaren - Jenson Button
Ferrari - Fernando Alonso
BMW Sauber - Kamui Kobayashi
Toro Rosso - Jaime Alguersuari
Renualt - Robert Kubica
Force India - TBC
Mercedes - TBC
Williams - TBC
Red Bull - TBC
Virgin - TBC
Lotus -TBC

Saturday:
McLaren - Jenson Button
Ferrari - Fernando Alonso
BMW Sauber - Kamui Kobayashi
Toro Rosso - Jaime Alguersuari
Renualt - Robert Kubica
Force India - TBC
Mercedes - TBC
Williams - TBC
Red Bull - TBC
Virgin - TBC
Lotus -TBC

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The 3rd pre-season testing session of 2010 starts in around 2 hours at Jerez. We will be providing regular updates throughout the day.

[szhjcn]

Yup all set to follow another day of testing.

Must admit I was expecting a little more discussions on this thread. Regular commentry and times can be found on on the Autosport website.

[szhjcn]

Today's Commentry:

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/178

Weather looks pretty bad for the next 4 days though.