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Tuesday’s testing review

February 28th, 2006

Renault went to the top of the timesheets on day 2 of testing in Valencia. The impressive Heikki Kovalainen beat Anthony Davidson’s Honda into 2nd place by less than a tenth of a second. The 2 McLaren’s of Raikkonen and de la Rosa were 3rd and 4th a further 3/10ths adrift. The Mac’s only seperated by 7/1000ths of a second despite de la Rosa using the V10 hybrid and Kimi using the 2006 MP4-21. The Williams’ completed the line-up by setting similar times to yesterday, but as everyone else improved they slip back.

Raikkonen, Kovalainen & Rosberg were the cause of the 3 red flags in today’s testing. All to do with mechanical faults.

Below are the times. Red Bull and Toyota join the action tomorrow.

Valencia
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Kovalainen Renault (M) 1:10.438 123
2. Davidson Honda (M) 1:10.532 146
3. Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:10.827 73
4. de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:10.834 109
5. Rosberg Williams-Cosworth (B) 1:11.268 69
6. Webber Williams-Cosworth (B) 1:11.561 85

At Mugello, Ferrari continued their testing. The weather was better today but both drivers still worked on their programmes - Michael on aero and Massa on reliability. Both drivers continue testing tomorrow.

Mugello
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:21.974 94
2. F.Massa Ferrari (B) 1:22.481 71


Super Aguri debuted the aerodynamic package they will be using in Bahrain today in a shakedown test at Silverstone. Unfortunately for them they ran into weather they wont be encountering in Bahrain - Snow !! They ran a few laps to make sure everything was fine then got in out of the cold

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