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Together
with his team mate Felipe Massa, Kimi Räikkönen continued today
the test work started yesterday at the Grand Prix race track of
Barcelona to prepare for the start of the 2008 season in almost
three weeks.
The
weather conditions improved noticeably - particularly with regard
to the weather yesterday morning - with a dry track right from the
beginning. Kimi mainly worked on the further development in the
area of aerodynamics as well as on more general work on the setup,
the reliability and the preparation of the setup to be used in the
races. For this plan the Finn completed a total of 72 laps and at
this he set in 1:21.722 minutes the third fastest lap time of the
day. His gap on the two McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki
Kovalainen, who were placed on top of the time sheets, was 0.488
or 0.288 seconds respectively. Kimi's team mate Felipe Massa, who
succesfully completed a full race simulation today, achieved the
fifth place with a time of 1:22.513 minutes.
Kimi
and Felipe will be back on track tomorrow for the final day of
testing prior to the start of the 2008 championship.
Testing
Times Barcelona Day 2:
| Pos |
Driver |
Team |
Laps |
Time |
Gap |
| 1. |
L.
Hamilton |
McLaren |
81 |
1:21.234 |
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| 2. |
H.
Kovalainen |
McLaren |
68 |
1:21.434 |
0.200 |
| 3. |
K.
Räikkönen |
Ferrari |
72 |
1:21.722 |
0.488 |
| 4. |
N.
Rosberg |
Williams |
75 |
1:22.309 |
1.075 |
| 5. |
F.
Massa |
McLaren |
102 |
1:22.513 |
1.279 |
| 6. |
G.
Fisichella |
Force
India |
102 |
1:22.516 |
1.282 |
| 7. |
S.
Vettel |
Red
Bull |
109 |
1:22.558 |
1.324 |
| 8. |
R.
Kubica |
BMW |
94 |
1:22.625 |
1.391 |
| 9. |
J.
Button |
Honda |
67 |
1:22.659 |
1.425 |
| 10. |
V.
Liuzzi |
Force
India |
89 |
1:22.942 |
1.708 |
| 11. |
K.
Nakajima |
Williams |
100 |
1:22.977 |
1.743 |
| 12. |
J.
Trulli |
Toyota |
98 |
1:23.023 |
1.789 |
| 13. |
F.
Alonso |
Renault |
77 |
1:23.112 |
1.878 |
| 14. |
R.
Barrichello |
Honda |
74 |
1:23.169 |
1.935 |
| 15. |
N.
Heidfeld |
BMW |
77 |
1:23.284 |
2.050 |
| 16. |
S.
Bourdais |
Toro
Rosso |
98 |
1:23.323 |
2.089 |
| 17. |
M.
Webber |
Red
Bull |
58 |
1:23.458 |
2.224 |
| 18. |
N.
Piquet jr. |
Renault |
45 |
1:23.467 |
2.233 |
| 19. |
T.
Glock |
Toyota |
80 |
1:23.561 |
2.327 |
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