F1 Pre-Season Test Week 4: Barcelona 8th - 11th March

Shimmy · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:33

The last week of F1 pre-season testing begins tomorrow morning for a 2nd week at Barcelona replacing the cancelled Bahrain test due to civil unrest.

Should expect to see some major upgrades brought to this test and to be used towards the end of the week.

Driver lineups for this weeks test:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/03/07/barcelona-test-driver-lineup-confirmed/

Live timings and commentary:
http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/318
http://f1tests.mine.nu/2011_1.php
http://translate.google.com/transla...alunya.html&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com

Day 1 times:

Code:

Pos 	Driver		Team			Time		Difference 	Laps
1.	Webber		Red Bull Racing		1:22.544	+ 1.368		97
2.	Button		McLaren			1:22.910	+ 1.734		74
3.	Petrov		Lotus Renault GP	1:22.937	+ 1.761		27
4.	Perez           Sauber                  1.24.117        + 1.573         90
5.	Heidfeld	Lotus Renault GP	1:24.735	+ 3.559		20
6.	di Resta	Force India		1:25.039	+ 3.863		38	
7.	Valsecchi	Lotus F1		1:25.406	+ 4.230		50
8.	Buemi		Toro Rosso		1:26.004	+ 4.828		48
9.	Hulkenberg	Force India		1:26.030	+ 4.854		31
10.	Razia		Lotus F1		1:26.723	+ 5.547		29
11.	D'Ambrosio	Virgin Racing		1:32.060	+ 10.884	57

Day 2 times:

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[b]Pos  Driver             Team/Car              Time       Gap       Laps[/b]
 1.  Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull-Renault      1m21.865s            112
 2.  Sebastien Buemi    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m22.396s  + 0.531s  120
 3.  Vitaly Petrov      Renault               1m22.670s  + 0.805s  116
 4.  Lewis Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      1m22.888s  + 1.023s  57
 5.  Felipe Massa       Ferrari               1m23.324s  + 1.459s  101
 6.  Paul di Resta      Force India-Mercedes  1m24.334s  + 2.469s  118
 7.  Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari        1m24.436s  + 2.571s  107
 8.  Nico Rosberg       Mercedes              1m25.807s  + 3.942s  100
 9.  Jarno Trulli       Lotus-Renault         1m26.090s  + 4.225s  98
10.  Pastor Maldonado   Williams-Cosworth     1m26.989s  + 5.124s  29
11.  Jerome D'Ambrosio  Virgin-Cosworth       1m28.982s  + 7.117s  6

Day 3 times:

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[b]Pos Driver              Team/Car                   Time         Gap       Laps[/b]
1.  Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari C30	   1:21.761	          95	
2.  Felipe Massa	Ferrari 150° Italia	   1:22.092     + 0.331	  132
3.  Mark Webber	        Red Bull-Renault RB7	   1:22.466	+ 0.705	  97
4.  Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth FW33	   1:22.637	+ 0.876	  105
5.  Michael Schumacher	Mercedes W02	           1:22.892	+ 1.131	  89
6.  Nick Heidfeld	Renault R31	           1:23.541	+ 1.780	  32
7.  Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault T128	   1:23.990	+ 2.229	  40
8.  Vitaly Petrov	Renault R31   	           1:24.233	+ 2.472	  24 
9.  Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes VJM04 1:24.334	+ 2.573	  108
10. Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR6	   1:24.779	+ 3.018	  107
11. Jerome d’Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth MVR-02	   1:27.336	+ 5.575	  96
12. Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault T128	   1:34.485     + 12.724  6

Day 4 times:

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Pos  Driver              Team/Car              Time       Gap       Laps
 1.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m21.268s            67
 2.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m21.614s  + 0.365s  141
 3.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m21.788s  + 0.539s  22
 4.  Nick Heidfeld       Renault               1m22.073s  + 0.824s  67
 5.  Rubens Barrichello  Williams-Cosworth     1m22.233s  + 0.984s  89
 6.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m22.315s  + 1.066s  98
 7.  Jaime Alguersuari   Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m22.675s  + 1.426s  72
 8.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m22.933s  + 1.684s  64
 9.  Heikki Kovalainen   Lotus-Renault         1m23.437s  + 2.188s  138
10.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  1m23.653s  + 2.404s  42
11.  Adrian Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  1m23.921s  + 2.672s  26
12.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Cosworth     1m24.108s  + 2.859s  11
13.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m25.837s  + 4.588s  57
14.  Jerome D'Ambrosio   Virgin-Cosworth       1m27.375s  + 6.126s  46

Day 5 times:

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Pos  Driver              Team/Car           Time       Gap       Laps
 1.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes           1m43.814s            35
 2.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Cosworth  1m44.333s  + 0.519s  23
 3.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes   1m44.560s  + 0.746s  33
 4.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes                                5
 5.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari                                 5

utajoker · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:18

hopefully mclaren make some improvements this week.

Kerming · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:41

utajoker said:
hopefully mclaren make some improvements this week.

they have a secret plan................the stig haha

JonnyGLC · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:11

The stig is my secrete

utajoker · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:30

Kerming said:
they have a secrete plan................the stig haha

schumacher cant race for two teams

Duke · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:47

Shimmy said:
Should expect to see some major upgrades brought to this test and to be used towards the end of the week.

Yup all the teams will be testing their cars in full race trim. It'll still be hard to see which will be quickest but may see a pattern, you never know.

arknor · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:11

its 8th to the 12th

because some are running 9th till 1th

Duke · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:38

http://translate.google.com/transla...alunya.html&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com

Mr Jack · 8 Mar 2011 at 09:14

Did the teams get an extra allocation of test time/milleage for this test?

JonnyGLC · 8 Mar 2011 at 09:30

mmmmmmmmmm

koolpc · 8 Mar 2011 at 09:31

Do you think that F1 is getting too 'space age' in that there are too many gizzmos in the cars? I would love to see the cars stripped of all the tech stuff and see some 'real' racing skills.

gord · 8 Mar 2011 at 09:53

How do you define real racing skills? I think it's better today than it was in Schumacher's heyday.

koolpc · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:00

No electronic gizzmos to aid driving! Remove them all.

Shimmy · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:03

arknor said:
its 8th to the 12th because some are running 9th till 1th

Yeah I realised straight after posting the thread.

Still only 4 days running for all teams, McLaren miss Thursday for example. Perhaps a passing mod can alter the title.

A random name said:
mmmmmmmmmm

Don't worry, won't look like that come race day.

They're using that bulbous nose to test the flexing of the front wing afaik, perhaps to achieve the infamous flexible front wing Red Bull had last year.

Edit:

McLaren Pod: stranger rumours suggest the quite strong looking struts are hydraulic and move the wing to replicate different flex, the results can then be measured in order to engineer subsequent wings to flex in a similar manner. the hydr set up is legal for testing, then as RBR proved last year a wing can flex as long as it meets the FIA test

GravyMonster · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:16

Mr Jack said:
Did the teams get an extra allocation of test time/milleage for this test?

No, this test is replacing the one scheduled for Bahrain, so no extra mileage needed.

gord · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:16

koolpc said:
Not electronic gizzmos to aid driving! Remove them all.

TCS was removed for 2008 onwards. The ECUs are standardised. What more can they reasonably do?

koolpc · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:21

They can change settings in car? Tweak things? Remove them.

gord · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:26

You've got to ask yourself if settings are driver aids. Is it easier to drive while changing settings in the car or does that require even more skill?

koolpc · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:31

Changing settings alters the setup which alters the driving challenge. Remove them and let the drivers 'drive'.

deuse · 8 Mar 2011 at 10:53

gord said:
How do you define real racing skills? I think it's better today than it was in Schumacher's heyday.

The year 1991 was the best year for F1. Take a look at Senna doing the pole lap at Monaco 91 AWESOME..

"How do you define real racing skills?" again look no further then Senna and the MP40 driving one handed most of the time.