Today was this weeks first testing day and the weather wasn't great. Some teams were complaining about that, but it's something that can happen. The circuit is outside...
McLaren looks really really fast.

times 30 january:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:12.563 85
2. Piquet Renault (B) 1:13.549 27
3. Montagny Toyota (B) 1:13.672 33
4. Vettel BMW-Sauber (B) 1:13.683 75
5. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:13.691 45
6. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:13.735 50
7. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:13.848 49
8. Fisichella Renault (B) 1:13.867 34
9. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:14.025 29
10. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:14.520 51 *
11. Rossiter Honda (B) 1:14.643 37 *
12. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:15.674 27 *
13. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:15.726 27
14. Badoer Ferrari (B) 1:16.334 35 *

* 2006 hybrid car

Thanks for posting the times, Tineke!!!

PS Where is Heikki....

another post from me!
Look what happened on the track today they like each other even more from now on

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Well, I think Heikki has a sort of fittnessbreak. In his column for bbc he wrote this (column posted at 24 january):

WHAT I AM DOING NEXT

I am scheduled to go to Italy for three days at the end of this week for my annual fitness check-up. I have a new trainer and this is just part of the normal routine for this year.

As well as a comprehensive medical test, we do fitness tests and see how I'm doing with things like my cardio, my power levels, my neck - all the things that need to be correct in a racing car.

If there's anything we need to improve we still have time to change my fitness programme before the season starts.

But I felt pretty good at the test so I am quite confident it will just be a nice check-up and then we can get on with the year.

It's pretty busy between now and the start of the season in Melbourne. I have about 10-12 days in the car before going to Australia, including two weeks in Bahrain in late February.

That is an important test because the conditions in Europe in the winter are very different from those we'll find in Melbourne, and Bahrain will give us a chance to try the car in hot weather.

When I'm not driving, I will spend some time in the factory after the tests going through the results so we can prepare in the best possible way. And then I do fitness whenever there is a bit of a break.

With long days in the tests, plus all the travelling and the extras it wears you out, so you need some time to recover.

But I enjoy doing fitness, and being in the car is what I love. I'm already looking forward to Valencia and getting a chance to drive it again.

whole column:

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What is wrong with Alonso? ))) he just drove into him!!! he has to leard that sometimes this year he'll have to be BEHIND people and OVERTAKE!!

Well.. it's a ferrari. who cares?

I would if that was Kimi in that car...

But it wasn't.

Piquet second! *squeeeeee*

OK, I just love the comments on youtube: "Alonso Schumahered Badoer"

times 31st January :

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:12.682 84
2. Fisichella Renault (B) 1:12.737 37
3. Kovalainen Renault (B) 1:12.770 43
4. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:12.869 51
5. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:13.012 48
6. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:13.297 46
7. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:13.310 42
8. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:13.574 78 *
9. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:13.690 72
10. Rossiter Honda (B) 1:13.732 28 *
11. R.Schumacher Toyota (B) 1:13.839 31
12. de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:14.286 46
13. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:14.401 116
14. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:14.812 36 *
15. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:15.939 26
16. van de Garde Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:26.348 4 *


don't look too much in to Fernando's times because he has tested at Valencia 2 weeks more than Kimi and Heikki so he has better setups and more track data

Yeah.. you must not admit that he's only fast.

6 february Jerez


1.Pedro de la Rosa- Vodafone McLaren Mercedes -1m19.998
2.Alex Wurz -WilliamsF1 -1m20.035
3.Robert Kubica -BMW Sauber- 1m20.158
4.Lewis Hamilton -Vodafone McLaren Mercedes -1m20.222
5.Kimi Raikkonen -Ferrari- 1m20.243
6.Ralf Schumacher -Toyota- 1m20.251
7.Jenson Button -Honda Racing- 1m20.363
8.Franck Montagny -Toyota -1m20.412
9.Nico Rosberg -WilliamsF1- 1m20.523
10.Luca Badoer- Ferrari- 1m20.668
11.Sebastian Vettel -BMW Sauber -1m20.711
12.David Coulthard- Red Bull Racing- 1m21.023
13.Nelson Piquet Jr -Renault -1m21.258
14.Ricardo Zonta- Renault- 1m21.389
15.Mark Webber- Red Bull Racing -1m21.530
16.Christian Klien- Honda Racing- 1m22.079

No worries for us: renault was testing on reliability today! That explaines why the laptimes are a bit slower than McLaren & the rest...

but the best thing was that Kimi made very good laptimes on long runs ...and I mean very good

yeah, not bad, not bad...

But Mclaren seems so fast, they win almost every test session