
Ferrari, Toyota and BMW head into their penultimate day of testing at Bahrain. There wasn’t much to choose between them yesterday, with the trio covered by just 0.4s. Felipe Massa takes over from Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari today.
Meanwhile back in Europe the remaining teams seem to have dropped their plans to test at Barcelona and instead use their remaining test days closer to the start of the season.
Today?s testing line-up
Ferrari – Felipe Massa
Toyota – Timo Glock
BMW – Nick Heidfeld
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Pictures from today’s test
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Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th February 2009, 13:24
Heidfeld fastest so far today, but still 0.8s off Raikkonen’s best yesterday:
1. Nick Heidfeldm BMW 1:32.993
2. Timo Glock, Toyota 1:33.248 +0.255
3. Felipe Massa, Ferrari 1:33.394 +0.401
Meanwhile McLaren are testing at Kemble.
S Hughes
18th February 2009, 13:25
Keith, do you think McLaren are in trouble?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th February 2009, 13:37
I wouldn’t be alarmed by the fact they’re doing a secret test, if that’s what you mean. It’s not out of the ordinary for a team to do it.
Becken Lima - F1around.com
18th February 2009, 14:37
Well, McLaren did the same kind of test last year in Royal Mahon Flying Club in Menorca, Spain. The Motorsport Aktuel site/magazine made a test analyzing and get the conclusion that the team, despite the 2008 spec wing used at Jerez, have fastest car so far.
I think we have no real reason to worry about so far…
MOTORSPORT AKTUEK LINK:
http://www.motorsport-aktuell.com/formel-1/news/tests-erstes-kraefteverhaeltnis-8115.html
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th February 2009, 21:19
Becken have you got up-to-date stats on whose done the most laps?
S Hughes
18th February 2009, 16:05
Thanks Becken Lima – is there any way of translating this?
sajonaraman
18th February 2009, 16:53
Try google translate…
Two stops for Heidfeld today. Reliability issues haunting BMW?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th February 2009, 18:44
Press release from BMW:
February 16th – 19th 2009
Week two / Day three – Wednesday
Weather conditions: sunny and fairly windy all day
Air temperature: 19 – 22 °C, track temperature: 20 – 29 °C
Number of drivers participating: 3 from 3 teams
Fastest lap overall: Timo Glock (Toyota) 1:32.492 min
Circuit length: 5.412 km
Nick Heidfeld
Chassis / engine: BMW Sauber F1.09-02 / BMW 86/9
Test kilometres today: 444 (82 laps)
Fastest lap: 1:32.993 min
Programme:
Today’s testing schedule comprised basic development work with the BMW Sauber F1.09. Nick Heidfeld tried different set-up solutions, did a couple of practice starts and evaluated tyre options. Whereas in the morning everything went according to plan, in the afternoon the car stopped twice on the track due to mechanical problems.
“Obviously that cost us some track time,” Heidfeld said. “But despite this I managed to run for 444 kilometres and we made good progress with the development of the car. We are still learning the car and have already identified a few areas where we can make improvements.”
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th February 2009, 19:05
Apparently Ferrari had gearbox problems.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th February 2009, 19:09
Final times for today:
1. Timo Glock, Toyota – 1:32.492, 132 laps
2. Felipe Massa, Ferrari – 1:32.917, 105 laps
3. Nick Heidfeld, BMW – 1:32.993, 82 laps