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Hamilton is the fastest racer of the morning

Hamilton is the fastest racer of the morning

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Mercedes racer Lewis Hamilton has recorded the fastest time of the morning part of the first day of testing taking place in Barcelona this week. The winner of the race in Spain finished the three-hour morning training as the fastest with a time of 1: 44.291 on a wet track, and drove 27 laps. The teams were greeted by rain at the Katalunya racetrack in the morning, which delayed the start of testing by one hour, and what was happening on the track was also limited due to low temperatures, which hovered around 16 degrees Celsius. The afternoon portion of today’s testing will begin an hour earlier, and teams are hoping conditions will improve. The second fastest time belonged to Williams racer Felipe Massa, and Red Bull reserve racer Sebastien Buemi was third. The fourth time was set by McLarn’s Jenson Butt
Ferrari has to work at double speed

Ferrari has to work at double speed

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New Ferrari boss Marco Mattiacci said his team must immediately accelerate the pace of development after showing a dull performance at the Spanish Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen finished the race in sixth and seventh place. The former was almost a minute and a half behind the winner, while the latter lost the team duel thanks to a missed tactic and fell behind by a full lap. “We are aware of our position and the fact that we need to start working at double speed right away,” said Mattiacci, who has only been leading the team for a month. “The fact is that we have two very motivated and combative racers, and at the same time we are a team that stands firmly together and strives for a vision of a new winning era,” Mattiacci added. The racers and teams stayed at the Catalunya racetrack after the race, where they started today
Alons both days of testing

Alons both days of testing

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Like all other Formula One teams, Ferrari will remain on the Sakhir track for some time after the Bahrain Grand Prix, as the first off-season testing begins tomorrow. The two-day testing will be the first of four to take place during this season. Fernando Alonso will race for the Maranello team on both days to help the team make the progress the team's boss, Stefano Domenicali, wants.
Kobayashi: Renault will pick up

Kobayashi: Renault will pick up

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Caterham racer Kamui Kobayashi believes in Renault, which has a lot of problems at the beginning of this year's pre-season testing. The French engine fitter of the Caterham, Toro Rosso and Red Bull teams has driven only 151 laps in the last four test days with the mentioned teams in Spain (Mercedes, for example, 875, or Ferrari 444). Nevertheless, Kobayashi does not despair over the French, as he believes that they will recover quickly: “I am not worried about their initial form. They’ve been doing the best job in recent years, which is why I’m not really worried about my current form. Even before they came for testing, they knew it would be so, as they were late for plans. They still have a lot of work to do, but they know what to do, which is why we can expect a big step forward in Bahrain. ”So the teams with Renault are already in Bahrain.
For the end the fastest Massa

For the end the fastest Massa

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The fourth and thus the last day of testing in Jerez was finished at the top by Felipe Massa with Williams. The day ended under red flags when Kevin Magnussen and McLarn were taken off the track in the tenth turn in protective tires. Toro Rosso racer Danill Kvyat also stopped on the track, also in the right turn. Magnussen covered 110 laps, but the record holder was Fernando Alonso with 115 laps. The Spaniard finished the day in second place with a Ferrari F14 T, with no problems, stops on the track or trips off the track. It is worth mentioning Nic Rosberg with a Mercedes, who finished the morning test at the top with 91 laps, but in the afternoon Lewis Hamilton took the helm of his car. The Englishman then drove 41 laps and both finished
Sutil admitted the mistake

Sutil admitted the mistake

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Adrian Sutil admitted an error on the first day of testing in Jerez, where he lost control of the back of the car. The German was already in the thirty-fifth lap with the C33 car, but only reached the seventh turn, where he collided with a wall on the inside of the track and thus damaged the nose of the car and the front suspension. Adrian commented on the incident: “With new race cars, it is very difficult to drive at low temperatures. The combination of a cold engine and tires, and a cold turbo memory is much less torque and I just lost control of the car. Luckily, we only replaced the nose of the car, and repaired the suspension. So everything could be fixed, so we will drive again tomorrow. ”
The third day of the McLarns

The third day of the McLarns

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The third day of pre-season testing ended best for McLarn rookie Kevin Magnussen, who finished the test day at the very top. Kevin's teammate Jenson Button was the fastest in the morning, but at the end of the test day, Massa with Williams took second place, followed by Hamilton with Mercedes. As many as three red flags were flown for Fernando Alonso with Ferrari, Danile Ricciardo with Red Bull and Nico Hulkenberg with Force Indio. Another red stop was later taken by Adrian Sutil, who collided in turn number 7. As the fifth, Jean-Eric Vergne made a stop with Toro Ross, which was only forty minutes before the end of the test day. At Force India, Hulkenberg drove only seventeen laps, but they had even more problems at Renault. Until now
Mercedes: "Front wing problems can be solved"

Mercedes: "Front wing problems can be solved"

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The German carmaker started the first test day of this season in Jerez catastrophically. Lewis Hamilton ended up in a protective fence along the track after his front wings broke off. The car was, of course, badly damaged enough to end the test day for Mercedes prematurely, but they immediately began analyzing why the problem occurred at all. CEO Paddy Lowe has confirmed that they will work overnight to solve the problems, but for now it is not clear whether they will be able to continue testing - even if the new parts are already on their way to Spain. Paddy explains, “We know where the problem is, but we don’t understand it well enough yet. We have a lot of work to do in the laboratory, but above all we have a busy afternoon ahead of us and also the night that follows, because we want to know the solution for today tomorrow.
Racers and teams are getting closer to pre-season testing

Racers and teams are getting closer to pre-season testing

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The winter break will soon be over, and the MotoGP caravan will begin testing in the first week of February. The Moto 2 and Moto3 start work a few days later. The drivers of the royal class will pass four tests, during which the factory teams will test only the tires in one test. The Moto 2 and Moto 3, however, will undergo three tests before the start of the season. The first testing will begin on February 4 in Malaysia at the Sepang racetrack, where teams and racers will have three days to make the first tests before the new season. Other tests will take place at the same racetrack in Sepang from 26 to 28 February, where teams will have the opportunity to improve their motorcycles. For the third test, which will take place from 3 to 5 March in Australia, at the Phillip Island racetrack, three factory teams will travel and
No agreement on testing plan for 2014

No agreement on testing plan for 2014

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The teams were against the changes for a maximum of 12 days of testing, but next year we will have a very big change in the technical rules, which would give everyone a test day with a car for 2014. Currently, the most current additional testing is in January, but a big unknown remains other test days. So the problem is that five teams want 12 days of testing in January and February, five 15 days in both months and one only 12 days in February. Anyway, at least the maximum number of test days before the season currently remains unchanged - 12. Four teams want to spend these 12 days on three four-day tests. So the teams are very divided in terms of testing, especially if we mention the Ferrari proposal, where the Italians proposed another 9 test days during the season (the proposal is