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It was a
very positive penultimate day of testing in Jerez for
Scuderia Ferrari, working, like the other ten F1 teams,
at the third pre-season test session and with the start
of the F1 World Championship now in sight.
After two days
of bad weather, yesterday saw the conditions improving,
apart from a couple of hours in the morning, when there were
still some wet sectors on the track. Eventually the cars
could be fitted with tyres for a dry track, with the tarmac
temperature finally on acceptable levels.
Fernando Alonso
started his fourth day of testing with his new team just
after 9am, taking over from Felipe Massa who had driven
during the first two days of the test, and the Spaniard
stopped driving around 20 minutes before the official end of
the training session. During the day he drove 132 laps and
got a good impression of the car.
"I’m satisfied
because we could drive many miles on the dry," Alonso
commented after the day's running was completed. "The results are positive, because we
got to know the new car better. Also my place in the team is
improving from day to day, as is my feeling for the F10. We
can confirm that step by step we’re arriving at 100
percent."
Alonso drove the
day’s second fastest lap, in a time of 1.21.115, while the
fastest man on the track was Red Bull’s Mark Webber, the
only driver to post a time below 1.20 (1.19.299). The
Spaniard will be back on the track today, hopefully with
more sun. The weather forecast is pretty good: sun
throughout the day with possible showers in the evening.
Friday lap times
from Jerez:
1. Webber
1.19.299 (115 laps)
2. Alonso 1.20.115 (132)
3. Button 1.20.394 (101)
4. Hulkenberg 1.21.432 (138)
5. Schumacher 1.21.437 (79)
6. Kubica 1.21.916 (100)
7. Sutil 1.21.939 (69)
8. Kobayashi 1.22.228 (28)
9. Alguersuari 1.22.564 (120)
10. Di Grassi 1.23.504 (34)
11. Kovalainen 1.23.521 (68)
Test Details:
Circuit: Circuito Permanente de Velocidad, Jerez de la
Frontera – 4.428 km; Driver: Fernando Alonso; Car: Ferrari
F10; Weather: air temperature 9/16 °C, track temperature
9/25 °C, slightly cloudy, track still damp in the morning,
but always dry from then on.
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