Barcelona, fourth pre-season test

[pino]

Gearbox had to be replaced, but then they found a water leak and had to fix that as well. Well I say fix, I mean bodge it up because, you know, got to wait for the parts to be delivered guv. Pretty sure some of those Lotus mechanics must have learned their trade in car dealers

Same story as last year for Jarno, too many mechanic problems on his car and almost none on Kova's

[pino]

Michael faster after 1 hour session

1. Schumacher (Mercedes) 1:23.948 s.

2. Alonso (Ferrari) 1:24.775 +0.827

3. Barrichello (Williams) 1:24.932 +0.984

4. Kobayashi (Sauber) 1:26.023 +2.075

5. Heidfeld (Renault) 1:26.120 +2.172

6. Sutil (Force India) 1:26.815 +2.867

7. Kovalainen (Lotus) 1:28.754 +4.806

source : marca.com

[Mia 01]

I must say that I’m interested of the sport in first hand and of drivers in second hand.
My absolute favourite was Kimi, until he left - and then Sebastian and Felipe – today I don’t like Ferrari at all (after they pay out Kimi who is one of the best drivers and a favourite to so many – therefore - if anyone at Ferrari shall win I hope it will be Felipe, not "Santader paid" Alonso – I have however my doubts when speaking about Ferrari and who the first driver is there – so therefore my favourite for the 2011 titles is Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull (as last year). I like the way they won the titles last season.

Exactly, I´m glad that one moore swede is seeing the light

[Tazio]

Morning times:

1 Schumacher Mercedes 1m21.268s
2 Alonso Ferrari 1m21.614s +0.346
3 Heidfeld Renault 1m22.073s +0.805
4 Barrichello Williams 1m22.233s +0.965
5 Kobayashi Sauber 1m22.315s +1.047
6 Alguersuari Toro Rosso 1m22.675s +1.407
7 Vettel Red Bull 1m23.012s +1.744
8 Kovalainen Lotus 1m23.437s +2.169
9 Sutil Force India 1m23.921s +2.653
10 Button McLaren 1m25.837s +4.569
11 D'Ambrosio Virgin 1m27.375s +6.107

All timing unofficial. Updated: 12:03 GMT


11:56 Adrian Newey's Ford GT40 is being readied at the end of the pitlane. The Red Bull technical genius will be doing some laps in it at lunchtime

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/317

[MrJan]

You must not have researched the best spot concerning the McLaren nose.

http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...n-got-a-pimple

Yeah well I've been functioning with borrowed internet this week so didn't really have the time to look it up, cheers for the clarification

[Mia 01]

I´m afraid that Macca is using one of their last e3ngines supplied today.

It took some time to find it.

But as Lewis said: we will be up there (in the midfield)

[RS]

Anyone else worried about Virgin? They set some reasonable times in the early tests but were well off the pace this week. I know testing is testing but you would have thought they would have gone for a qualifying style run at some point this week...

[ioan]

Same story as last year for Jarno, too many mechanic problems on his car and almost none on Kova's

Actually teams only bring one car to tests, so it is the very same car for both of them.

[ioan]

Good to see MS back on top, even if it is only testing!

[N4D13]

And Hispania will arrive in Oz without having done a single lap of testing.

Echoes of 2010...