Circuit: Montmelò circuit – 4.655 km
Driver: Kimi Raikkonen
Car: Ferrari SF15-T
Weather: Air temperature 10/17°C, track temperature 10/30°C. Sunny.
Laps/Km completed: 136/633
Fastest time: 1:23.276
Tyres used: Soft, Medium.
Programme: aerodynamic test, set up and race simulation.
Kimi Raikkonen: “Overall it hasn’t been a bad test since we covered a race distance today. Now we wait to go to Melbourne to see how we stand compared to the others. I wish to thank the Team for the work it has done during the winter”.
James Allison: “We’ve got a lot of laps under our belt in this winter testing; but until you actually go out and do the laps for a race, one after the other, and not stopping except to change tyres, you really can’t claim that you’re ready to go to Melbourne and do it for real. So we’re happy to get our first race distance of the winter done, happy to have achieved at the first attempt, and with the reliability that we showed. So I’m pleased with the testing we did over the last two days, which shows clearly that the car works as we expected. Winter testing in Europe always asks slightly different questions from the car than you get when you’re in Bahrain: but it doesn’t turn night into day. Most of what the car really is is revealed here as much as on the other Grand Prix circuits during the year. And I think what we see is a well-mannered car, so we expect these characteristics to be broadly carried over to the other races”.
Pos | Driver | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1m23.022s | – | 76 |
2 | Felipe Massa | Williams/Mercedes | 1m23.262s | 0.240s | 102 |
3 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1m23.276s | 0.254s | 136 |
4 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Toro Rosso/Renault | 1m24.191s | 1.169s | 132 |
5 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus/Mercedes | 1m24.200s | 1.178s | 116 |
6 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber/Ferrari | 1m24.477s | 1.455s | 123 |
7 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India/Mercedes | 1m24.939s | 1.917s | 158 |
8 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren/Honda | 1m25.225s | 2.203s | 39 |
9 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull/Renault | 1m25.742s | 2.720s | 128 |
Today, Kimi Raikkonen took over from Sebastian Vettel at the wheel of the SF15-T. The team’s programme focused mainly on further aero and set-up testing, while the plan for this afternoon is to run the car in race configuration. An electrical problem, combined with some pre-planned work, required a long stop in the garage (ferrari.com).
#F1 #TestBarcelona #Ferrari: #Raikkonen‘s race simulation pic.twitter.com/X3pJXzIG9i
— Gianlu D’Alessandro (@Gianlu_DAle) February 28, 2015
#F1 #Ferrari #Raikkonen – Winter testing pic.twitter.com/yEC0po5nAE
— Gianlu D’Alessandro (@Gianlu_DAle) February 28, 2015
He did put in more laps that Hamilton and Massa in the Merc-powered units without any glitches.
But I do think Merc will dominate yet again for the first 4 or 5 races before Europe. And yet again, they will be far and away in front in terms of points by Europe. But what’s interesting is that Kimi’s lap times were not far off Hamilton’s.
Perhaps he had something else on his mind… Like Robin? 🙂
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