Impressive return from Schumacher as hs pips Roseberg

Weather: air temperature 10/15 °C, track temperature 11/20 °C. Sunny.

First day of testing for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, working today, along with six other teams, at the Cheste circuit, near Valencia.

It fell to Felipe Massa to give the F10, the car that will carry the Scuderia colours in this year’s World Championship, its track debut. The Brazilian driver worked mainly on defining a baseline set-up for the new car and on analysing the behaviour of the new Bridgestone tyres. Felipe covered a total of 102 laps, the quickest in a time of 1.12.574.

The Scuderia continues testing at this circuit tomorrow, again with Felipe Massa on track.

Today's times:

 1.  Massa         Ferrari              (B)  1:12.574  102               2.  de la Rosa    BMW Sauber-Ferrari   (B)  1:12.784   74                 3.  M.Schumacher  Mercedes GP          (B)  1:12.947   40                 4.  Rosberg       Mercedes GP          (B)  1:13.543   39                 5.  Paffett       McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:13.846   86                 6.  Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth    (B)  1:14.449   75                 7.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:14.762   18                 8.  Kubica        Renault              (B)  1:15.000   69 

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