Red Bull Racing Final Test Day One

We returned to the track today at the Circuit de Catalunya, with Mark topping the timesheets on day one of the final pre-season test.

The team enjoyed a largely trouble-free outing at the Barcelona track with Webber completing 97 laps and recording a fastest time of 1:22.544 over the 4.655km track.

Afterwards, Mark said: “It was a pretty good day and not much has changed since last week. We got some good laps in today. I think everybody is limited by tyres – we don't have unlimited sets of tyres these day -, so the mileage is a bit controlled by how many you have at your disposal. But, all in all, we had a good afternoon and got some good information.”

Head of Race Engineering, Ian Morgan, said “Today was the first proper test for Chassis 02 and I’m happy to say everything went according to plan. We had a mixture of things to get through today, concentrating on some short runs in the morning and then longer race-distance type runs in the afternoon.”

“The only difficulties we encountered were the slightly low ambient temperatures and some windy conditions,” he added. “It would be nice to get the chance to test in hotter conditions and we hope for a bit of increase as the week goes on. But that was a small problem really on a pretty useful day for us.”

Sebastian Vettel will take over test duties tomorrow.

Unofficial Tuesday Times:

1. Mark Webber, Red Bull Racing, 1:22.544, 97 laps
2. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:22.910, 74
3. Vitaly Petrov, Renault, 1:22.937, 27
4. Sergio Perez, Sauber, 1:24.117, 90
5. Nick Heidfeld, Renault, 1:24.735, 20
6. Paul di Resta, Force India, 1:25.039, 38
7. Davide Valsecchi, Lotus, 1:25.406, 50
8. Sébastien Buemi, Scuderia Toro Rosso, 1:26.004, 48
9. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1:26.030, 31
10. Luiz Razia, Lotus, 1:26.723, 29
11. Jerome D’Ambrosio, Virgin, 1:32.060, 57