Testing at Jerez 10th-13th February 2011

[vcs316]

10:12 The lorry is on the move now, bringing the car back to the pits. We'll take a look as it returns to the paddock.

10:11 The truck is still at the scene, can't tell from here if the car has been picked up yet.

10:11 The timing screen says the track is clean, so no fluids spilt by the Virgin.

10:11 The crowd is getting bigger in the stands out the back of the circuit now the sun is poking through a bit more.

[vcs316]

Alonso's latest stint:

23 1:21.913
24 1:21.859 -0.054
25 1:21.864 +0.005
26 1:29.001 +7.137
27 1:21.817 -7.184
28 ----
29 1:21.817
30 ----

[vcs316]

10:19 Here come current top two Barrichello and Alonso as well.

10:18 Rosberg leaves the pits for Mercedes too.

Jenson Button10:18 Then Button in the McLaren.

10:17 Buemi is first to set off in the Toro Rosso, followed by Senna's Renault.

10:16 Back to green at Jerez.

10:16 The session has restarted.

[vcs316]

10:25 Rosberg in the Mercedes hasn't made it back and is stopped out at Turn 7.

10:25 The red flag is out again.

[vcs316]

Barrichello's time of 1.19.832 was done on lap 2 of a 9 lap run. So it wasn't just a qualifying simulation, there was at least 9 laps of fuel in there.

21 Out Lap
22 1:22.131
23 1:19.832 -2.299
24 1:21.156 +1.324
25 1:21.615 +0.459
26 1:21.813 +0.198
27 1:21.868 +0.055
28 1:22.329 +0.461
29 1:22.684 +0.355
30 1:22.343 -0.341
31 Pits

[vcs316]

Rosberg's car is back in the pits. Track will be green soon!

[vcs316]

10:38 Buemi is first to head to the end of the pitlane, and then out.

10:37 Back to green at Jerez as the Mercedes is returned.

[vcs316]

Alonso on track

[vcs316]

No spectacular times yet on these runs - Alonso, Buemi and Senna have kicked off in the mid-1m23s.

[vcs316]

@MarussiaVirgin: "The problem with Jerome's car was just an oil pressure sensor, so he stopped as a precaution. We are replacing and should be out fairly soon"

[vcs316]

Kobayashi jumps to second with a 1m20.601s, 0.7s behind Barrichello.

[vcs316]

looks like alonso is on a long run, 10 laps so far..

[vcs316]

11:06 Looks like he spun off.

11:06 The Sauber is in the Turn 8 gravel.

11:06 Kobayashi has caused this stoppage.

11:06 The session has been stopped.

[vcs316]

Alonso's stint times before the red flag interruption:

30 Out lap
31 1:21.817
32 1:23.106 +1.289
33 1:23.179 +0.073
34 1:23.106 -0.073
35 1:24.228 +1.122
36 1:25.130 +0.902
37 1:23.717 -1.413
38 1:23.387 -0.33
39 1:23.708 +0.321
40 1:24.198 +0.49
41 1:24.216 +0.018
42 1:24.223 +0.007
43 1:24.317 +0.094
44 1:24.835 +0.518
45 1:25.225 +0.39
46 1:25.364 +0.139
47 1:25.580 +0.216
48 Pits due to Red flag

[vcs316]

That's three red flags in the last hour now - not great news for teams trying to make the most of the final day, especially with rain expected at the end of the afternoon.

[voiko]

any ore news? back out yet?

[scuderiafan]

12:14 AUTOSPORT news editor @glenn_autosport is back from a trip trackside: "Very interesting spell trackside - one team in particular clearly holding something back. Will reveal all in tonight's AUTOSPORT.com blog"

[TheProdigalSon]

^Yes I'm very interested in who that is.. If he says RB then that's already obvious.

[scuderiafan]

^Yes I'm very interested in who that is.. If he says RB then that's already obvious.

imagine the look on various Macca fans if he says it us.

[TheProdigalSon]

It would be a site to behold, there would be an avalanche of accusations from the autosport forum where they all live on how we couldn't possibly be fastest without cheating. They even threw there toys out of the pram about us using Toyota's windtunnel when several teams this year had used it.

[Sempre_Ferrari]

91 laps by Alonso so far today which is again a good sign of reliability

Anyone one know where we can get the mileage completed so far by teams during testing? .........As far as I know there is a 15000km testing limit for all teams, not sure if it's still in force tho.

[ferrari4life]

Is anyone worried about the fact that the bulls are so far down the order?

[NJB13]

Is anyone worried about the fact that the bulls are so far down the order?

I'd be happy if it was a race, but here, it's totally meaningless.

[Hornet]

Is anyone worried about the fact that the bulls are so far down the order?

They certainly looks like they are intentionally crippling their time to hide something.
But I doubt Ferrari is showing all our capabilities either.

It just appears the RB are trying harder than us, lol

[Raz]

Is anyone worried about the fact that the bulls are so far down the order?

most likely they're setting up KERS, as they never used it in 2009.. so maybe they're just doing installation/configuration , setup checks etc, and not after laptime

[Afalej]

most likely they're setting up KERS, as they never used it in 2009.. so maybe they're just doing installation/configuration , setup checks etc, and not after laptime

I may be wrong here but RB are using the same KERS that Renault has developed right?

[shostak]

It's starting to rain in Jerez now.

[Raz]

I may be wrong here but RB are using the same KERS that Renault has developed right?

yeah as far as everyone knows, which in 2009 was "rubbish" compared to Merc and Ferrari KERS

[Afalej]

Awesome:D

[Afalej]

yeah as far as everyone knows, which in 2009 was "rubbish" compared to Merc and Ferrari KERS

Yea they didn't use it for much of the season did they. But who knows they have had plenty of time to make it better