Webber leads Day One in Barcelona

river: Mark WebberCar: RB6 – 01Laps: 109Best time: M. Webber 1:21.487Circuit length: 4.655 kmFastest lap: M. Webber (see above)

Mark Webber was driving for the team in Barcelona today, as Red Bull Racing beganits final 2010 pre-season test, ahead of the first race in Bahrain next month.After the soggy conditions last week in Jerez, it was bright and sunny today inBarcelona. The team’s programme included a race weekend simulation within oneday, as they ran through procedures for P3, qualifying and a race.

Ian Morgan, Head of Race Engineering said, “Today was always planned as a raceweekendsimulation day, so we did some testing along with P3 and qualifying in themorning and a race simulation in the afternoon. Everything went very well up untilhalfway through the race simulation, when something in the data made us decide tostop the car on track. It was nothing major though and we got the car repaired andback out until the end of the session. It went well today, apart from that small reliabilityissue.”

Mark Webber said: “We had a pretty good day of testing. We did some simulations andperformance items in the morning and a race simulation in the afternoon. We had aprecautionary stop in the middle of the race simulation because of a gearbox oil alarm,but the guys got the car turned around pretty quickly and we finished the session, so itwasn’t too bad.”

Sebastian Vettel will be driving for the next two days of this final four-day test, withMark taking over again on Sunday.

Pos Driver Team Best Time Total Laps1 M Webber Red Bull Racing 1:21.487 1092 N Hulkenberg AT&T Williams 1:22.407 823 N Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:22.514 1074 P de la Rosa BMW Sauber 1:23.144 735 J Button McLaren 1:23.452 1016 V Liuzzi Force India 1:24.064 657 F Alonso Ferrari 1:24.170 748 V Petrov Renault 1:24.173 749 J Alguersuari Toro Rosso 1:24.869 11110 L di Grassi Virgin 1:27.057 3111 F Fauzy Lotus 1:28.002 76


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