virgivaughn: Barcelona Formula 1 test summary

Sergio Perez came away from his second test as a McLaren Formula 1 driver with the fastest time of the week at Barcelona.

The Mexican’s 1m21.848s lap on Wednesday edged out Fernando Alonso and Ferrari’s Thursday benchmark by 0.027 seconds.

The test’s quickest times all came from short one-lap runs on soft tyres, although with varying fuel loads and track conditions involved, they cannot be seen as a definitive measure of qualifying-pace.

Nico Hulkenberg continued Sauber’s strong winter pace in third, while Lotus showed well as Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen took fourth and seventh on combined times, despite a lot of mechanical gremlins for the Finn.

As ever, Red Bull was coy in testing and rarely appeared to run light fuel. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were fifth and 13th.

The drivers’ mileage stats were misleading. Alonso led the way with 283 laps, but had three days of running in exchange for missing Jerez earlier in the month.

Max Chilton’s second place came by virtue of him getting all four days in Luiz Razia’s absence. Marussia actually completed least mileage of all 11 teams.

The top team tally was Williams’s 367 laps, four more than nearest rival Ferrari. That came despite Williams being the only team giving a brand new car its debut, having using 2012′s FW34 at Jerez.

Drivers Valtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado were thrilled with the FW35′s immediate reliability.

Of the potential title contenders, Lotus had the most technical issues.

Grosjean was relatively untroubled, getting in 160 laps across Thursday and Friday. But team-mate Raikkonen only managed 87 in his two days, losing much of Tuesday to data-logging problems and nearly all of Wednesday to a gearbox change.

Combined times

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1. Sergio Perez McLaren 1m21.848s
2. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m21.875s + 0.027s
3. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber 1m22.160s + 0.312s
4. Romain Grosjean Lotus 1m22.188s + 0.340s
5. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1m22.197s + 0.349s
6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m22.616s + 0.768s
7. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus 1m22.623s + 0.775s
8. Pastor Maldonado Williams 1m22.675s + 0.827s
9. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m22.726s + 0.878s
10. Valtteri Bottas Williams 1m22.826s + 0.978s
11. Jenson Button McLaren 1m22.840s + 0.992s
12. Adrian Sutil Force India 1m22.877s + 1.029s
13. Mark Webber Red Bull 1m23.024s + 1.176s
14. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 1m23.366s + 1.518s
15. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1m23.718s + 1.870s
16. Paul di Resta Force India 1m23.971s + 2.123s
17. Max Chilton Marussia 1m25.115s + 3.267s
18. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber 1m25.124s + 3.276s
19. Jules Bianchi Force India 1m25.732s + 3.884s
20. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1m26.177s + 4.329s
21. Charles Pic Caterham 1m26.243s + 4.395s
22. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m27.563s + 5.715s

Mileage by driver

Driver Team Laps Kms
1. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 283 1317
2. Max Chilton Marussia 241 1121
3. Valtteri Bottas Williams 189 879
4. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 186 865
5. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber 179 833
6. Pastor Maldonado Williams 178 828
7. Sergio Perez McLaren 174 809
8. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 173 805
9. Mark Webber Red Bull 172 800
10. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber 164 763
11. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 162 754
12. Romain Grosjean Lotus 160 744
13. Charles Pic Caterham 151 702
14. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 150 698
15. Paul Di Resta Force India 144 670
16. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 143 665
17. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 143 665
18. Jenson Button McLaren 141 656
19. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus 87 404
20. Felipe Massa Ferrari 80 372
21. Adrian Sutil Force India 78 363
22. Jules Bianchi Force India 61 283

Mileage by team

    Team             Laps         Kms
  1. Williams         367	  1708
  2. Ferrari          363	  1689
  3. Sauber           343	  1596
  4. Mercedes         335	  1559
  5. Toro Rosso       329	  1531
  6. Red Bull         322	  1498
  7. McLaren          315	  1466
  8. Caterham         294	  1368
  9. Force India      283	  1317
 10. Lotus            247	  1149
 11. Marussia         241	  1121

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