Barcelona Test: Trulli Ends F1 Testing on Top

Circuit: Circuit de Catalunya – 4.655 km
Drivers: Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa
Car: F2008
Weather: air temperature 15/23 °C, track temperature 15/25 °C. Sunny in the morning, then cloudy.

Today
marked the end of winter testing for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro in
preparation for the start of the World Championship, which gets
underway on Sunday 16th March in Melbourne.

Today both drivers
– Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen – were out on track running different
programmes. Felipe was working on set-up, using up the remaining
kilometres of engine life in his car: he completed 49 laps, the
quickest in a time of 1.22.286. Kimi had a race simulation on his
agenda, which he completed despite several interruptions caused by red
flags and one precautionary stop to carry out a check on the car at the
start of the afternoon. By the end of the day, Kimi had done 80 laps,
the quickest in 1.21.933.

The Scuderia will next be on track
on 6th March at Fiorano, where Luca Badoer will carry out the shakedown
of the cars that will be used in the Australian Grand Prix.

Today’s times:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time      Laps
 1.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:20.801   83
 2.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:21.258   76
 3.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota      (B)  1:21.293   77
 4.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:21.309   87
 5.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:21.368   91
 6.  Piquet        Renault              (B)  1:21.443  114
 7.  Alonso        Renault              (B)  1:21.454  128
 8.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota      (B)  1:21.796  124
 9.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              (B)  1:21.933   80
10.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:22.011   88
11.  Glock         Toyota               (B)  1:22.155   49
12.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari  (B)  1:22.233   90
13.  Massa         Ferrari              (B)  1:22.286   49
14.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber           (B)  1:22.299   93
15.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:22.465   79
16.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari  (B)  1:22.521   97
17.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber           (B)  1:22.624   61
18.  Wurz          Honda                (B)  1:24.154   82
19.  Button        Honda                (B)  1:24.275   73