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Today saw the first day of testing for
Scuderia Ferrari and the ten other Formula 1
teams, running at the Catalunya circuit, on
the outskirts of Barcelona, from now until
Friday. Significantly, Fernando Alonso made
his seasonal track debut driving the new
F138 single-seater for the first time.
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Today
saw the first day of testing for Scuderia Ferrari and
the ten other Formula 1 teams, running at the Catalunya
circuit, on the outskirts of Barcelona, from now until
Friday. Significantly, Fernando Alonso made his seasonal
track debut driving the new F138 single-seater for the
first time.
The entire day was dedicated almost entirely to
acquiring data for use in the development of the car and
on gaining a greater understanding of the Pirelli tyres.
Fernando completed a total of 110 laps, with a best time
of 1.19.952.
Fernando Alonso: “I feel reasonably pleased with this
first day and I can say I share Felipe’s opinion that
the car is on another planet compared to the one we
began with on the first day of testing last year. The
programme for this first session in Barcelona is aimed
mainly at improving reliability, with the target of
completing more than a hundred laps every day. Then, at
next week’s test we can concentrate on performance.
Tomorrow, we will complete what we were unable to do
today and we will focus on car set-up, to adapt it as
well as possible to the tyres. I knew from looking at
the Jerez data what sort of car I would find here today,
as in fact we know more or less what we will see at the
first race in Australia, in terms of what new parts we
will have and how many tenths they will produce. This is
down to all the work done over the winter in the wind
tunnel and the numerous tests which confirm that the
parts that are on their way will give the expected
results.”
Test Details: Date: 19/02/2013; Circuit: Catalunya
Circuit, Montmelo – 4.655 km; Driver: Fernando Alonso;
Car: Ferrari F138; Weather: air temperature 13/17°C,
track temperature 13/28 °C. Cloudy in the morning, then
sunny in the afternoon.
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