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

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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:
Code: 
[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:

Code: 
[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:

Code: 
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:

Code: 
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
 
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arknor said:
its 8th to the 12th :P because some are running 9th till 1th
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Yeah I realised straight after posting the thread. :p 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:
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mmmmmmmmmm :o
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Don't worry, won't look like that come race day. :D 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
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Errmmm Perez has just gone nearly 1.5 secs clear of the field. WTF LOL?!

Even with taking weight out, that's some time..

Edit: Looks like he may have jumped a chicane which would make sense :p
 
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Vettel has just gone a second clear of the nearest rival team on a 5 lap run doing a 1:21.8. Today is forecasted as the last day of dry running so should see more quali runs and rad race sims in the afternoon.

It seems Mercedes' full upgrade won't run till tomorrow at the earliest, they just have a new exhaust layout today. Ferrari also testing a new exhaust layout.
 
Yeah I agree with gord, if it was just camber the wing would still be straight which it obviously is not. It seems other teams have struggled to copy RB's front wing, I expected most of the top tier teams to have matched it over the winter. I'd expect that's what McLaren are trying to achieve with the contraption Jensen tested yesterday.


Looks like another bad day for McLaren, very little action on track following hydraulic and exhaust problems.


In other news it seems Pirelli will be distinguishing its tyre compounds with different coloured Pirelli branding on its sidewalls.

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I've seen white, yellow and green so far.
 
arknor said:
bet ops wishing he let Duke make the thread :D
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Haha, I don't mind doing it for the odd test. I just wanted to make the thread a bit early so we could talk about it with it being the last test and the BIG thread locked.

I've actually been updating the links for timings and commentary the night before the next day of testing, so it's all up to date. But yeah I don't know where to find a source for the time sheets at the end of each day that fits nicely.

TaKeN said:
Still no laps from McLaren :rolleyes:
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They're not testing today, they'll be using their remaining 2 days of testing on Friday and Saturday.
 
Whilst Sauber may be trying to look faster than they actually are I have a gut feeling they'll do much better this year. That might just be because I like their driver lineup of Kobayashi and Perez though, I think they'll both be exciting to watch.

Found some footage of testing in Barcelona, from the previous test though:



Kinda wish McLaren ran today instead of Tuesday, track temperature is the highest it's been all winter by some margin. Should be useful data on the Pirelli tyres which have been run in cold temperatures thus far.
 
Day 3 times:

Code: 
[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

Perez topping the times not only today but of all testing so far in Barcelona.

P.S. Duke please tell me there's a place you c&p the times from already formatted, I've just done the one above c&p from f1fnatic but required lots of tweaking. PITA! :p
 
Torro Rosso have done 60 pit stops in the last 2 days alone, practice that is. Not just due to tyre degradation. :p

Ferrari have also done more mileage this winter than there is in a full season of GP races.
 
Tweaker said:
Did McLaren test the F duct last year during testing, or was it something they brought to the car at the first racing? Wondering if other teams are holding back
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They had it in on in the latter tests iirc. Remember there being a lot of speculation as to what it was or even its purpose.
 
Schui has just gone fast with his new upgrade package, 1:21.2 which is half a second quicker than the benchmark set by Perez yesterday.

Obviously RBR and Ferrari more than likely still have pace in hand but it's encouraging for Mercedes.
 
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