Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg topped the time chart in the VJM09-02 on day three of F1 testing in Barcelona, Spain.
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg topped the time chart in the VJM09-02 on day three of F1 testing in Barcelona, Spain. These times are not an indicative of how quick the cars are as the teams have different objectives, trying to test various new parts on the cars and checking the reliability. This is represented in the results given below.
Nico Hulkenburg
Romain Grosjean of the newly formed Haas GP team came in second, almost two seconds slower than Nico. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen completed 77 laps and managed the third spot with medium tyres. Kevin Magnussen came in 4th for the Renault works team and most importantly, clocked 111 laps after having faced trouble on day 1 & 2 of testing. Neco Rosberg completed the top 5.
Nico Hulkenberg said, “A positive day for me and I’ve come away with some good first impressions as we continue to learn about this car. We tried quite a lot of things today and, although we need to do some more fine-tuning, it does feel like we are moving in the right direction. The important thing is that we are getting lots of laps under our belt at this early stage and we are able to start exploring different set-ups. Melbourne is not far away, but it feels like we are on schedule and days like this are very encouraging. You never know what the other teams are doing so we’re just focusing on ourselves and working hard.”
Day Three F1 testing results:
1. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1:23.110, supersoft tyres, 99 laps
2. Romain Grosjean, Haas, soft tyres, 1:25.874, 82 laps
3. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1:25.977, medium tyres, 77 laps
4. Kevin Magnussen, Renault, 1:26.014, soft tyres, 111 laps
5. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1:26.084, medium tyres, 74 laps
6. Carlos Sainz, 1:26.239, medium tyres, 161 laps
7. Felipe Nasr, Sauber, 1:26.392, medium tyres, 115 laps
8. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:26.421, medium tyres, 88 laps
9. Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull, 1:26.497, medium tyres, 74 laps
10. Felipe Massa, Williams, 1:26.712, medium tyres,109 laps
11. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:26.919, medium tyres, 51 laps
12. Rio Haryanto, Manor, 1:28.249, medium tyres, 78 laps
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