LOTUS F1 BARCA TEST RESULTS DAY TWO. Romain Grosjean finished his pre-season preparations as the fastest man on track at the Circuit de Catalunya today, with weather conditions continuing to frustrate the team’s test programme. In a day book-ended by rain, an extensive programme was nevertheless completed; including the evaluation of a new rear suspension […]
SON OF DAMON HILL TO CONTEST F3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP- Josh Hill and Dmitry Suranovich will contest the 2013 FIA Formula 3 European Championship for Fortec Motorsport. 22-year-old Josh Hill, the son of the 1996 Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill, joins Puerto Rican Felix Serralles and Brazilian Luis Felipe Derani as third Fortec driver and […]
WEBBER FASTEST IN WET AND WINDY BARCELONA The final pre-season test kicked off today at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya and, as widely predicted, the weather played a major part in proceedings. Starting on a damp track the morning session was given over to running on intermediate and full wet tyres as overnight wet weather turned […]
ADRIAN SUTIL ON HIS RETURN TO FORMULA 1– Sahara Force India continued testing in Barcelona as Adrian Sutil spent a day helping the team with its winter test programme. Jules Bianchi will be in the car for the final day of running tomorrow. Adrian Sutil: “It was a good day and nice to be […]
FERNANDO ALONSO FASTEST ON DAY THREE Alonso worked his way down to the 1m21.875s mark before lunch, stayed on top for the remainder of the third day in Catalunya. His time is the fastest seen so far at Barcelona and almost half a second quicker than the corresponding soft-compound best of 2012 winter testing at […]
VETTEL ‘BACK IN THE GROOVE’ WITH 102 LAPS IN THE RB9 After two days with Mark Webber at the wheel of the Infiniti Red Bull Racing RB9, today it was Sebastian Vettel’s turn to get acquainted with the new car. The triple world champion wasted no time in exploring its potential and set the day’s […]