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January 15, 2008
Jerez day one roundup
Testing from a lot of the teams (9 of the 11) started in earnest yesterday at Jerez in Spain.
It was a mixed bag weather wise, and this caused some of the teams to run a reduced test day, and others seemed to take advantage and try running different wet weather configurations.
The day seemed to be dominated a bit by the Ferrari drivers, with Kimi showing the fastest time of the day. The Ferrari seemed to handle the wet weather well considering the drivers are no longer helped out with traction control systems.
It was not completely flawless for the Italian champions though, as Massa’s car showed a hickup, and he lost track time to a mechanical fault that Ferrari have not said the cause of, suspect a gearbox 
issue though as it was a relatively quick fix by the team.
Toro Rosso, and Sebastian Vettel showed the car had a decent pace in the conditions (also running the Ferrari engine remember). He took the third fastest time, with newcomer Sebastien Bourdais taking the 6th fastest time in the sister car.
Posted by ashleigh on
April 25, 2006
Silverstone Test Tuesday Results
As mentioned earlier the Silverstone test started Tuesday. I've just had a chance to go over the times, and details.
Montoya was the fastest driver on track, he set a 1m21.076s towards the end of the session. The Columbian was trying out the latest evolution of the Mercedes-Ilmor engine.
Next fastest was the Local boy Jenson Button. The Honda team were concentrating on chassis work, trying to understand their low temperature issues. He set a 1m21.131s.
The two Renault's were next up, with Kovalainen beating his team leader Alonso to the third place spot. They set 1m21.241s and 1m21.311s respectively. However Alonso suffered mechanical issues.
Davidson (who also had issues) was the first person outside the 1m21's he set a 1m22.085s.
Nico Rosberg got a good session in for the Williams team driving a total of 108 laps during the day, that bodes well for the Cosworth reliability.
The MF1 team where there in the afternoon, however they did not do an awful lot of running and ended up the only team in the 1m24s
