Second day of testing at the Montmelo preseason, after the opening of the day on Monday which saw the presentation of many teams in the pit lane and the best finish time of Vettel with Ferrari SF16-H in front of Hamilton. In this Tuesday there is always the German track of red, with the debut of the Mercedes Rosberg and Alonso on McLaren (under with grids for aerodynamic tests), that with Button in the initial days totaled 84 laps for 391 km: comforting distance given the precedents serious reliability problems of English cars.
honda torpedoes Arai – About McLaren, worth mentioning the engagement removal of the head of Motorsport Honda, Yasuhisa Arai, from the end of the month. The decision, taken by the Board, it is disguised as a promotion to another post the most prestigious, but it really seems a dismissal related to the lackluster performance of the Honda power unit, produced exclusively for McLaren, in the disastrous 2015. In its place comes Yusuke Hasegawa.
in action – in action in this Tuesday, February 23, in addition to Vettel, Rosberg and Alonso, also Ricciardo (Red Bull) , Perez (Force India), Palmer (Renault), Verstappen (Toro Rosso), Ericsson (Sauber), Wehrlein (Manor) and Gutierrez (Haas).
The timing of the test at 12
12 hours – at noon there is in the lead Nico Rosberg with Mercedes: German, shortly before 12, with the time 1’24 “867 has overtaken Vettel off the pace. Seb stopped at 1’24″ 940, made of tires medium, one superior to the one-thousandth hit the previous day. Behind him Ricciardo, 3rd, also under the wall dell’1’25 “with 1’24″ 965. At 11.45 the first red flag of the day, triggered by a failure of the Toro Rosso Verstappen remained stagnant in the last sector of the track.
11 hours – After 2 hours of practice to record the click of Ricciardo that Red Bull took the lead at the head of the list time in 1’25 “223, followed by two Germans: Rosberg, 2nd with Mercedes at 0″ 256 and the author of some 43 laps, and Vettel, who with Ferrari began shooting regularly and is at 0 “289 by Australian.
10 hours – there’s Nico Rosberg in the Mercedes W07 at the end of the first hour of testing, in the head It marked the time of 1’26 “236 24 laps already collecting. Behind him Bottas (Williams) to 6/10 and Perez (Force India) to 9. Only 7 rounds to Vettel, with no flat rates: German is obviously engaged in a job of detections.
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