Seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher set today, Friday the fastest time in Day 2 of the second winter test session held at Circuito Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
Schumacher took over the Mercedes GP W02 car. Running with the Mercedes KERS operational throughout the day to continue Schumacher's familiarisation process, the team focused on system checks with shorter runs in the early part of the day, before progressing to set-up work and tire evaluations with the medium and super soft Pirelli tire compounds over longer runs.
Schumacher set a time of 1:20.352 that was not beaten during the day. However, the teams noted that lap times varied a lot from the morning to the afternoon.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa (who was quickest yesterday) set the second fastest time. The Brazilian driver’s programme for the morning centered on analysing the behaviour of the four types of tire brought here by Pirelli, while in the afternoon, Felipe did long runs of several consecutive laps.
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| Vitaly Petrov, Lotus Renault GP (Photo: WRI2) |
Schumacher took over the Mercedes GP W02 car. Running with the Mercedes KERS operational throughout the day to continue Schumacher's familiarisation process, the team focused on system checks with shorter runs in the early part of the day, before progressing to set-up work and tire evaluations with the medium and super soft Pirelli tire compounds over longer runs.
Schumacher set a time of 1:20.352 that was not beaten during the day. However, the teams noted that lap times varied a lot from the morning to the afternoon.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa (who was quickest yesterday) set the second fastest time. The Brazilian driver’s programme for the morning centered on analysing the behaviour of the four types of tire brought here by Pirelli, while in the afternoon, Felipe did long runs of several consecutive laps.
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| Felipe Massa, Ferrari (Photo: WRI2) |