F1 Testing 2012 - Week 3, Barcelona

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Third and final pre-season test kicks off tomorrow for four days. Will we see a 2012 car from HRT or Marussia?


Running order:

Code: 
[b]Team 		Thursday 	Friday  	Saturday 	Sunday [/b]
Red Bull 	Webber 		Vettel 		Webber 		Vettel
McLaren 	Button 		Hamilton 	Button 		Hamilton
Ferrari 	Massa 		Alonso 		Massa 		Alonso
Mercedes 	Rosberg 	Schumacher 	Rosberg 	Schumacher
Lotus 		Grosjean 	Grosjean 	Raikkonen 	Raikkonen
Force India 	di Resta 	Hulkenberg 	di Resta 	Hulkenberg
Sauber 		Perez 		Kobayashi 	Perez 		Kobayashi
Toro Rosso 	Vergne 	 	Vergne 		Ricciardo 	Ricciardo
Williams 	Maldonado 	Senna/Mald 	Mald/Senna 	Senna
Caterham 	Kovalainen 	Kovalainen 	Petrov 		Petrov



Timing links / commentary:

http://www.attwilliams.com/test-timings

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/446

http://f1tests.co.cc/2012.php?rev=on



Pics:

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4



Times:

Day 1
Code: 
[b]Pos	Driver		Team		Time			Laps[/b]
1 	Grosjean	Lotus	 	1m23.252s		73
2 	Button		McLaren	 	1m23.510s  +0.258	64
3 	Perez		Sauber	 	1m23.820s  +0.568	118
4 	Webber		Red Bull	1m23.830s  +0.578	102
5 	Rosberg		Mercedes	1m23.992s  +0.740	128
6 	Vergne		Toro Rosso	1m24.216s  +0.964	113
7 	Di Resta	Force India	1m24.305s  +1.053	98
8 	Massa		Ferrari	 	1m24.318s  +1.066	105
9 	Petrov		Caterham	1m24.876s  +1.624	123
10 	Maldonado	Williams	1m25.587s  +2.335	58

Day 2
Code: 
[b]Pos 	Driver 		Team 		Time 			Laps[/b]
1 	Grosjean	Lotus	 	1m22.614s		123
2 	Vergne		Toro Rosso	1m23.126s  +0.512	31
3 	Vettel		Red Bull	1m23.361s  +0.747	85
4 	Alonso		Ferrari	 	1m23.447s  +0.833	124
5 	Kovalainen	Caterham	1m23.828s  +1.214	104
6 	Kobayashi	Sauber	 	1m23.836s  +1.222	76
7 	Hulkenberg	Force India	1m23.893s  +1.279	33
8 	Schumacher	Mercedes	1m23.978s  +1.364	78
9 	Hamilton	McLaren	 	1m24.111s  +1.497	65
10 	Senna		Williams	1m24.925s  +2.311	48
11 	Maldonado	Williams	1m25.801s  +3.187	20

Day 3
Code: 
[b]Pos 	Driver 		Team 		Time 			Laps[/b]
1 	Perez		Sauber	 	1m22.094s		114
2 	Button		McLaren	 	1m22.103s  +0.009	44
3 	Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1m22.155s  +0.061	131
4 	Massa		Ferrari	 	1m22.413s  +0.319	122
5 	Di Resta	Force India	1m22.446s  +0.352	108
6 	Senna		Williams	1m22.480s  +0.386	111
7 	Kovalainen	Caterham	1m22.630s  +0.536	64
8 	Webber		Red Bull	1m22.662s  +0.568	70
9 	Rosberg		Mercedes	1m22.932s  +0.838	129
10 	Raikkonen	Lotus	 	1m25.379s  +3.285	43

Day 4
Code: 
[b]Pos  Driver         Team            Time                Laps[/b]
 1.  Raikkonen      Lotus           1m22.030s           121
 2.  Alonso         Ferrari         1m22.250s  +0.220   115
 3.  Senna          Williams        1m22.296s  +0.266   53
 4.  Hulkenberg     Force India     1m22.312s  +0.282   101
 5.  Kobayashi      Sauber          1m22.386s  +0.356   72
 6.  Hamilton       McLaren         1m22.430s  +0.400   115
 7.  Petrov         Caterham        1m22.795s  +0.765   101
 8.  Schumacher     Mercedes        1m22.939s  +0.909   100
 9.  Maldonado      Williams        1m23.347s  +1.317   48
10.  Ricciardo      Toro Rosso      1m23.393s  +1.363   100
11.  Vettel         Red Bull        1m23.608s  +1.578   23
 
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Hopefully we'll see some qually simulations, so will get a slightly better idea of the speed of the teams although I expect they'll hold a little bit off until Aus.
 
I wonder if Ferrari and red bull had anything interesting up their sleve they were hoping to use on their private day that they will now be forced to test in public?
 
Skeeter said:
I wonder if Ferrari and red bull had anything interesting up their sleve they were hoping to use on their private day that they will now be forced to test in public?
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amazing how big the BBC sport headlines where about this - made it sound like they were missing the whole of the final test, rather than unable to test one day later lol

Im guessing your suspicion must have something to do with it - although would they have had both drivers on hand, or would they have started the season with some stuff already about Vettel getting to test stuff before Webber.....lol
 
I'm happy the last two days are on the weekend, I'll be able to follow live for once.

Looks like the front 5 are going to be much closer this year, I hope so anyway.
 
Duke said:
Hopefully we'll see some qually simulations, so will get a slightly better idea of the speed of the teams although I expect they'll hold a little bit off until Aus.
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I believe Mercedes topped the time sheets last year with their qualifying sims last year and ended up qualifying 7th and 11th, 2 seconds off the pace! It has become very, very difficult to read testing since they banned refueling.
 
08:48 Heikki Kovalainen confirms his absence is due to food poisoning via a more-detailed-than-we-really-wanted Tweet on @H_Kovalainen: "Wow what a night not been sick like this for a long time... both ends like no tomorrow! Not sure what I picked up and where but not nice..."
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:eek:
 
From autosport
"Some info from Pirelli - the tyre firm has brought more medium tyres here than any other compound.
114 sets in all. Plus 69 sets of hards, 94 of softs and 38 of super-softs."
 
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