Barcelona F1 testday 7: Hamilton breaks Catalunya lap record

Lewis Hamilton Mercedes W04
2 March 2013 by    2 min read
Lewis Hamilton pitbox

Lewis Hamilton explaining the Mercedes W04 to his engineers

Mercedes had fitted their W04 F1 car with the latest developed items today. Lewis Hamilton gave it his best and was the quickest combination today. He was more then a second faster then the official lap record set by Kimi Raikkonen in 2008. Mercedes made quite an impression today, after they showed their competitors that the Mercedes W04 was more than 2 seconds faster then earlier this week.

Second fastest was the Ferrari F138 with driver Felipe Massa behind the wheel. Ferrari also made much progress and Masas managed to drive the fastest lap for Ferrari this winter testing today. Fernando Alonso's fastest time was set on the 3rd day of practice at Catalunya circuit. His fastest lap time was 1:21.875. Massa drove 0.609 s faster then his Spanish teammate.

3rd fastest was F1 comeback driver Sutil in the Force India VJM06. Also showed a lot of speed and kept the two Williams driver behind him.

Position 4 to 8 where all in 1 second and very close...

Lap times Barcelona F1 wintertesting - day 7

Fastest lap times on the 7th day of Barcelona F1 wintertesting:

PosDriverTeamLap TimeLapsTyres
1Lewis HamiltonMercedes1:20.558 min117Soft
2Felipe MassaFerrari1:21.266 min94Super Soft
3Adrian SutilForce India1:21.627 min109Soft
4Pastor MaldonadoWilliams1:22.305 min34Soft
5Valtteri BottasWilliams1:22.468 min31Super Soft
6Esteban GutierrezSauber1:22.553 min99Soft
7Mark WebberRed Bull1:22.658 min59Soft
8Sergio PérezMcLaren1:22.694 min101Super Soft
9Jean-Eric VergneToro Rosso1:23.223 min114Soft
10Romain GrosjeanLotus F11:23.380 min46Soft
11Jules BianchiManor1:24.028 min74Super Soft
12Giedo van der GardeCaterham1:24.235 min126Super Soft

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