Barcelona Testing Day 1
By Sam Cooper
April 30 2007
Today the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes formula one team finished the first day of testing at Barcelona 4th, testing their radical new wing.
Conditions today were sunny and the track was bone dry, perfect conditions for a formula one test, all eleven teams took this opportunity to race their updated cars to attempt to understand them, and to tune their cars into the Spanish circuit.
Much to other peoples supprises, Toyota driver Ralf Schumacher was fastest today by 0.7 seconds to the next fastest person, Ferrari driver Kimi Raikonen. Pedro was one and a half seconds behind the Toyota driver and 8 tenths behind the Ferrari driver. Reports show that McLaren were not aiming for a fast lap time, they were concentrating on reliability and aerodynamic update testing.
Reports now in say that the reason why Ralf was so fast was that he cheated (classic Schumacher genes there then) by skipping the chicane (something that he has done in the past far too many times.
:All the teams will be testing tomorrow, rain and bad weather is forecast for the tests tomorrow, the test maybe extended to Thursday.
|
Pos. |
Driver |
Team |
Time |
Laps |
|
1 |
Ralf Schumacher* |
|
01:20.479*/ 1:21.983 |
92 |
|
2 |
Kimi Räikkönen |
Ferrari |
01:21.195 |
98 |
|
3 |
Tacuma Sato |
Super Aguri |
01:21.858 |
99 |
|
4 |
Pedro de la Rosa |
McLaren |
01:21.906 |
101 |
|
5 |
Nick Heidfeld |
BMW |
01:22.114 |
74 |
|
6 |
Rubens Barrichello |
Honda |
01:22.655 |
132 |
|
7 |
Nelson Piquet jr. |
Renault |
01:22.763 |
125 |
|
8 |
Vitantonio Liuzzi |
Scuderia Toro Rosso |
01:22.771 |
56 |
|
9 |
David Coulthard |
Red Bull |
01:22.973 |
47 |
|
10 |
|
Spyker F1 |
01:23.343 |
44 |
|
11 |
Gieldo van der Garde |
Spyker F1 |
01:23.466 |
37 |
|
12 |
Kazuki Nakajima |
Williams |
01:24.248 |
43 |
* denotes that the driver skipped part of the track and the faster time did not count, Ralf is therefore 4th.
