Wednesday's testing times

Kimi Rikknen concluded his second day of running at Barcelona with a gearbox problem keeping him off the track for much of the morning and part of the afternoon session at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Whilst the team ultimately diagnosed and rectified the issue, vital running time was lost. Once Kimi did get out on track, he immediately set the third fastest lap time, which is where he ended the day.

Fast Facts:Track: Barcelona, Spain, 5.9km Chassis: E21-02Weather: Sunny, ambient 7-17C, track 8-24CProgramme: Systems checks, temperature monitoring, data correlation, assessment of the performance of the car with its initial aerodynamic package Laps Completed: 43Classification: P3, 1:22.697Interruptions: Gearbox problem diagnosis and replacement

Whats Next?

Romain will take the wheel of E21 chassis 02 for the next two days

Kimi Rikknen:If yesterday wasnt an ideal day then today was more of the same. Fortunately, once we were able to get a lap in we could see that the car has good pace. We test to find any problems so in that respect were doing a good job, but its frustrating. Its no secret that we want to get more laps on the board and thats the target for the rest of this test and the final sessions next week.

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director:Our target was more laps today and weve missed that. We were able to diagnose a problem with the gearbox, but rectifying this took quite a lot of time. This severely affected our plans for the day but yet again we were able to show we have a quick car. On the positive side, there were no further problems with telemetry as we experienced yesterday and the second gearbox ran reliably in the afternoon. Tomorrow we will try to rack up the laps with evaluation work and a race distance simulation.

1.  Sergio Perez      McLaren         1m21.848s           97 laps   2.  Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull        1m22.197s  +0.349   84   3.  Kimi Raikkonen     Lotus           1m22.697s  +0.849   43   4.  Lewis Hamilton     Mercedes        1m22.726s  +0.878   121  5.  Fernando Alonso    Ferrari         1m23.247s  +1.399   76   6.  Valtteri Bottas    Williams        1m23.561s  +1.713   98   7.  Daniel Ricciardo   Toro Rosso      1m23.718s  +1.870   70   8.  Paul di Resta      Force India     1m23.971s  +2.123   62   9.  Nico Hulkenberg    Sauber          1m24.205s  +2.357   88  10  Max Chilton        Marussia        1m25.115s  +3.267   67  11  Charles Pic        Caterham        1m26.243s  +4.395   102

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