2009 Winter & Mid-season testing (Results and Pictures)

[Nbuulb]

2010 spec tyres? why? surely 2009 should be the priority right now?

I agree... But even McLaren tested 2010 spec tyres yesterday!
Indeed, the question is: why did Ferrari decide not to run at all? It would have been a good chance to gain experience on the behaviour of the new car on wet track...

[shailf1]

limited no of kms in each season so ferrari might not have wanted to watse them on a rainy track or maybe save the engine power of a good day.

[iceman1]

2010 spec tyres? why? surely 2009 should be the priority right now?

I agree... But even McLaren tested 2010 spec tyres yesterday!
Indeed, the question is: why did Ferrari decide not to run at all? It would have been a good chance to gain experience on the behaviour of the new car on wet track...

I believe that Bridgestone asked them to test the 2010 tyres .

[AzShadow]

I think Ferrari got quite a bit wet track testing in the earlier test sessions already. It's interesting to see how the teams can develop their cars when most of the tests have been so messed up with rain and sandstorms etc.

[JoostLamers]

thanks for the vids shail

[lealjaime]

day 3 of practice starting

[JoostLamers]

day 3 of practice starting

rain?

[coup]

day 3 of practice starting

rain?

I don't think so, fastest time so far is a 1:21 (live times here: http://directo.thef1.es/tests/)

[why so serious]

It's been reported that McLaren is still testing 2010-spec tyres and regulations in Jerez being the dead last in the time sheets as of 15.00. Alonso and Massa are the fastest and runner ups respectively.

1. F. Alonso Renault R29 1:20.439 100 pit
2. F. Massa Ferrari F60 1:20.674 +0.235 81 pit
3. M. Webber Red Bull Racing RB5 1:21.035 +0.596 71 pit
4. A. Sutil Force India VJM-02 1:21.326 +0.887 21 pit
5. T. Glock Toyota TF109 1:21.357 +0.918 101 pit
6. R. Kubica BMW Sauber F1.09 1:21.463 +1.024 47 pit
7. N. Rosberg Williams FW31 1:21.701 +1.262 78 pit
8. H. Kovalainen McLaren MP4-24 1:22.200 +1.761 53 pit

[phil1993]

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Glock Toyota (B) 1:19.814 141
2. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:20.238 134
3. Alonso Renault (B) 1:20.296 152
4. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:20.535 85
5. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:20.621 63
6. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:21.021 98
7. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:21.069 98
8. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:21.412 125

[megasyxx]

mclaren were last when using the 2009 spec rear wing, but moved up when they reverted back to the modified 2008 rear wing......are they really struggling for this year's full package or are they just playing possum?

[shailf1]

renault front wing has changed

Spoiler:

OLd


new

[iceman1]

not including today km by drivers from jan 1st to end of march 2 and excludes the private tests of webber and vettel

1. Felipe Massa 3.268
2. Jarno Trulli 2.405
3. Nick Heidfeld 2.401
4. Robert Kubica 2.311
5. Timo Glock 2.282
6. Kimi Räikkönen 2.280
7. Sebastien Buemi 2.224
8. Nico Rosberg 1.950
9. Sebastian Vettel 1.576
10. Fernando Alonso 1.470
11. Christian Klien 1.387
12. Lewis Hamilton 1.208
13. Heikki Kovalainen 1.156
14. Kazuki Nakajima 1.111
15. Nelson Piquet jr. 1.092
16. Sébastien Bourdais 1.076
17. Pedro de la Rosa 923
18. Mark Webber 642
19. Kamui Kobayashi 598
20. Nico Hülkenberg 494
21. Giancarlo Fisichella 376

[shailf1]

what is the limitation for each driver..??

[JoostLamers]

what is the limitation for each driver..??

I think there's only a limitation for the teams, I don't know how much.
For example: McLaren has 5,000 km testing km to complete. I think it doesn't matter if Hamilton does all 5,000km or Heikki and Lewis both do the half, or DLR and Paffett get involved, so each driver then can do 1,250km, or hamilton can do 2,500 and the other 3 drivers do the remaining 2,500.

So I think they don't limit the drivers, they limit the teams.