McLaren Still Look Pacey - De La Rosa top at Jerez

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McLaren-Mercedes third driver Pedro de la Rosa topped the times during testing on Tuesday, as the majority of Formula One teams switched from Valencia to Jerez.

Leading times (February 6) - Jerez:

1. Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes 1min 20.001secs 108 laps
2. Alex Wurz Williams-Toyota 1min 20.036secs 72 laps
3. Robert Kubica BMW Sauber-BMW 1min 20.159secs 46 laps
4. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1min 20.233secs 111 laps
5. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari-Ferrari 1min 20.245secs 86 laps
6. Ralf Schumacher Toyota-Toyota 1min 20.254secs 55 laps
7. Jenson Button Honda-Honda 1min 20.371secs 99 laps
8. Franck Montagny Toyota-Toyota 1min 20.409secs 46 laps
9. Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1min 20.525secs 62 laps
10. Luca Badoer Ferrari-Ferrari 1min 20.666secs 62 laps
11. Sebastian Vettel BMW Sauber-BMW 1min 20.715secs 51 laps
12. David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1min 21.021secs 48 laps
13. Nelson Piquet Jr Renault-Renault 1min 21.264secs 117 laps
14. Ricardo Zonta Renault-Renault 1min 21.392secs 67 laps
15. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1min 21.858secs 27 laps
16. Christian Klien Honda-Honda 1min 22.083secs 35 laps

Track conditions: Clear sunshine with track temperatures as high as 19.6° Celsius and ambient temperatures reaching 25.8° Celsius.

All times unofficial - courtesy of the official Circuito de Jerez website

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[Sting]

What I especially like about these times is look at 2nd fastest.... a Williams!
I hope this is a good indication for the coming season, I would love to see Williams back in the championship fold.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Day 2:

1 F. Massa Ferrari Bridgestone 01:19.821 109
2 L. Hamilton McLaren Bridgestone 01:19.839 96
3 R. Kubica BMW Bridgestone 01:20.046 101
4 F. Alonso McLaren Bridgestone 01:20.068 46
5 K. R&#228;ikk&#246;nen Ferrari Bridgestone 01:20.070 76
6 N. Piquet jr. Renault Bridgestone 01:20.070 76
7 A. Wurz Williams Bridgestone 01:20.132 78
8 N. Rosberg Williams Bridgestone 01:20.143 66
9 R. Schumacher Toyota Bridgestone 01:20.604 59
10 M. Webber Red Bull Bridgestone 01:20.629 36
11 D. Coulthard Red Bull Bridgestone 01:20.702 70
12 N. Heidfeld BMW Bridgestone 01:20.710 80
13 J. Button Honda Bridgestone 01:20.751 100
14 R. Zonta Renault Bridgestone 01:20.767 86
15 J. Trulli Toyota Bridgestone 01:20.898 80
16 M. Andretti Honda Bridgestone 01:22.151 74

 

[Lee]

Hah 15 cars all within a second or just about. With the last person only having his second day in a Formula 1 car..

Go Marco!

 

[<_Spike_>]

Hopefully this will be a moderate indication of the coming seasons, if so I can see a nice open championship going down to the wire again.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Wow, Kubica's looking fairly good. He and Hamilton look like the two most consistent over the two days. A lot of people I know think the Pole was just lucky in Monza last year and won't deliver in 2007, but seeing him there on the timing sheets makes me think we may be in for something different.

 

[Blake]

Kubica is the real deal. There is no way that he won&#8217;t deliver in the coming years.

 

[Kylehnat]

Kubica is the real deal. There is no way that he won’t deliver in the coming years.

He stole a race seat from a world champion. Enough said.

 

[Sureboss]

One of the worst world champions, too.

 

[Lee]

Day 3 - Wet conditions:

1 N. Heidfeld 01:29.486 36 Laps
2 A. Wurz 01:30.061 69 Laps
3 T. Glock 01:30.213 27 Laps
4 K. Räikkönen 01:30.628 89 Laps
5 R. Barrichello 01:30.684 64 Laps
6 N. Rosberg 01:30.684 47 Laps
7 F. Massa 01:30.746 44 Laps
8 J. Trulli 01:30.981 89 Laps
9 F. Montagny 01:31.027 75 Laps
10 D. Coulthard 01:31.166 66 Laps
11 M. Webber 01:31.405 68 Laps
12 P. de la Rosa 01:31.479 71 Laps
13 F. Alonso 01:31.573 9 Laps
14 M. Andretti 01:32.387 62 Laps
15 R. Zonta 00:00.000 2 Laps
16 N. Piquet jr. 00:00.000 3 Laps

BMW looks good in the wet whilst McLaren's fall from grace was pretty drastic!

 

[MagpieRacer]

Williams still going cosistently.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Williams still going cosistently.

Looks like they actually remembered to develop a car this year ...

 

[m7ammed]

Hopefully BMW will carry its strong performance from last year into this season , they seem to be adapting well to Bridgstone tires .

 

[<_Spike_>]

They certainly appear to have improved, like McLaren, but Alonso claims the McLaren is still not a race winner and must be improved particularly in the handling...as he said -

"It is not going to win at the moment. For the time being, the thing I like most about it is the colour!"

and as for this

He stole a race seat from a world champion. Enough said.

...that's not exactly saying much with the recent version of Villenueve

 

[Lee]

The recent Villenueve who at the very least matched Heidfeld? Give the guy a break, after a very disastrous 1999-2004, he done well to get a race seat at all..

 

[<_Spike_>]

Fair point I guess, and I did admire the fact he was never on Schumi's side when Schumi did something less then acceptable

 

[MustangSVT]

You guys are quick to bash on Villeneuve. He didn't that great at all in modern years, especially when he was at BAR. He did OK at Sauber in 2005 though, 2pts less than Massa, and in 2006, he was able to match Heidfeld during the first part half of the season. Ok, that's not great or amazing, but he did pretty decent.

 

[liam2maps]

These are fastest laps, right. I hope Williams aren't doing low fuel runs to post faster times just to get good press.