Saturday 27 February 2010

Track Circuit de Catalunya

Driver Nico Rosberg 

No of Laps 128 laps

Best Lap Time 1:20.686

Kilometres Covered 596 kms

Track Length 4.655 kms 

Weather Overcast with intermittent rain showers

Ambient Temperature Maximum 14°C Track Temperature Maximum 16°C 

Nico Rosberg completed the third day of testing for the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona yesterday to bring his pre-season testing programme to its conclusion.

Nico spent the morning working on qualifying simulations and developing the car set-up before completing a race simulation exercise in the afternoon.

Despite intermittent rain showers in the late morning and early afternoon,Nico was able to complete almost 600kms over 128 laps as he set the fastest time of the day, a 1:20.686, during the driest period in the morning.

Michael Schumacher will take over the MGP W01 Saturday for the fourth and final day of the test. Nico Rosberg: "We had a good day today and made some significant progress interms of set-up which was nice to see. We hadn't got the most out of the car in terms of performance over the last couple of days, but we made a step in the right direction today. We went through some big changes this morningstep by step and found some good improvements. The longer runs this afternoon were interesting. We learnt a lot as there were other cars runnings imilar programmes at the same time so we were able to do some comparisons. There is still plenty of room to improve but overall we're looking in prettygood shape."

TIMES (All timings are unofficial)

Pos Driver Car TimeLaps

1. Nico Rosberg MERCEDES GP PETRONAS 1:20.686128

2. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso1:21.413 106

3. Jenson Button Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1:21.450105

4. Rubens Barrichello Williams1:21.975 101

5. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:22.344115

6. Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:22.52368

7. Adrian Sutil Force India1:22.606 61

8. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull1:23.123 51

9. Jarno Trulli Lotus1:25.059 102

10. Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber1:26.216 105

11. Timo Glock Virgin Racing1:26.305 31