F1 2013 Testing: Week 3 Barcelona

Drying up faster now, Hulk just went out on dry tyres and went 6 seconds faster than anyone else, usually this point that quite a few people go out and it will dry up pretty quickly.

Seems to be once again Merc leading the lap count, doesn't neccessarily mean the car is reliable, but they do seem to be getting a hell of a lot of running in after those first two dodgy days. Hamilton was saying there is a bunch of new stuff either today or tomorrow for the car, hopefully we'll see some pics of bits that have changed.
 
Alonso is on mediums, Chilton on unmarked tyres, Ricciardo on softs. Webber has just gone out on mediums.
 
Alonso says Ferrari won't have Melbourne spec package ready for this weekend, first time they will run it will be Friday free practice.

Rest of the top teams will be running updated spec over the next 2 days.
 
Day of useful info over now, raining again, ALonso's race run turns into a slow paced reliability test more than anything else. Bit boring that so few really tried to find max speed when it was at its driest, though not surprising, if upgrades are due for most teams for tomorrow, reliability of underlying car is going to tell them more than data about speed today. Should see more speed testing when they are all trying to get their Melbourne packages up to pace so the next two days will hopefully be interesting... and better weather.
 
Lewis and Alonso look and seem(I think they are)very happy about their cars and so full of confidence.

Wonder if Merc and Ferrari have got an edge on the other teams?
 
Although I know testing testing means little in terms of comparing pace it is a
nice to see lotus at the front at barca
 
Today's times

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[b]Pos Driver                Team         Time       Gap       Laps  Tyres[/b]
 1. Romain Grosjean       Lotus        1m22.716s             88   Soft
 2. Jenson Button         McLaren      1m23.181s  + 0.465s   72   Medium
 3. Pastor Maldonado      Williams     1m23.628s  + 0.912s   75   Soft
 4. Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull     1m23.743s  + 1.027s   65   Medium
 5. Nico Hulkenberg       Sauber       1m23.744s  + 1.028s   79   Medium
 6. Adrian Sutil          Force India  1m24.215s  + 1.499s   62   Medium
 7. Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso   1m25.483s  + 2.767s   61   Soft
 8. Max Chilton           Marussia     1m25.598s  + 2.882s   75   Soft
 9. Giedo van der Garde   Caterham     1m26.316s  + 3.600s   48   Medium
10. Nico Rosberg          Mercedes     1m26.655s  + 3.939s   120  Medium
11. Fernando Alonso       Ferrari      1m27.878s  + 5.162s   102  Medium
 
Copy and posted from Mark [nuts]

Hey Pete give me a shout, im doing the young driver test at Silverstone in July give me a shout by text, will sort something out.
 
" Kimi Raikkonen is ill and will be replaced by Lotus reserve driver Davide Valsecchi this morning"

To much ice cream kimi :)
 
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