2009 F1 testing: March 15th (Video)
15th March 2009, 17:06 by Keith Collantine 31 Comments »
The first of five days of testing began in Jerez today, with four teams present. But one, McLaren elected not to do any running, and will stay on for an extra day at the end of the test.
Brawn GP repeated their form from earlier this week with Rubens Barrichello posting the fastest time.
Fernando Alonso was second quickest but lost a lot of time after crashing in the morning. According to the Renault F1 blog this caused them to abandon their plans to do a race distance.
The teams will test for three more days, except McLaren, who will do four.
Times from today’s test
1. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP-Mercedes – 1’19.236 (102 laps)
2. Fernando Alonso, Renault – 1’19.895 (33 laps)
3. Nico Hlkenberg, Williams-Toyota – 1’20.013 (69 laps)
Video from today’s test
Some video of the aftermath of Alonso’s accident:
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Steve said on 15th March 2009, 17:08
Brawn GP are for real.
Luigismen said on 15th March 2009, 17:08
Wonder why Mclaren didn’t go out
Striay said on 15th March 2009, 17:18
Rumor is Mclaren didn’t go out because the new parts which were scheduled to arrive today haven’t arrived yet so they decided not to test and add another day at the end, which could also benefit them because they will have the track for themselves, meaning less red flags etc.
sergio said on 15th March 2009, 17:12
I have been following it all-day was wondering why you hadn’t put a post Keith!
Mclaren are starting to really worry but excite me as well, so Hamilton Monday and Tuesday Kovalinen Wednesday and Thursday. Brawn GP may well win in Melbourne, but they will probably have loads of reliability issues and wont be able to develop as fast as other teams…. i think!
Keith Collantine said on 15th March 2009, 17:19
I’ve been away – was driving back to London this morning, and didn’t have time to get a post arranged earlier. Sorry guys!
Striay said on 15th March 2009, 17:13
sergio is Striay Really… oops
Striay said on 15th March 2009, 17:14
Can someone explain to me why its only Renault, Williams, Brawn GP, and Mclaren testing, not every team?
Keith Collantine said on 15th March 2009, 17:19
Well Ferrari, BMW and Toyota did all that testing in Bahrain, maybe they’re close to their limit?
derek said on 15th March 2009, 17:20
The other teams had a double week earlier so had completed their quota of test days.
derek said on 15th March 2009, 17:22
Very strange why McLaren not out today with the others. Be interested tomorrow how they fair against Brawn GP.
Aaron said on 15th March 2009, 17:26
Damn that Brawn GP car is quick!
I think McLaren will be on the pace for Melbourne. Hopefully they at least manage to get one car in the top 10!
derek said on 15th March 2009, 17:28
They might be hard pushed the way things are going!!
theRoswellite said on 15th March 2009, 17:33
Could someone suggest a good site for following the testing days.
Phil said on 15th March 2009, 18:06
f1today.nl put through google translate is pretty much all you need, although they’ve been a bit sparse on the text updates today, but that’s perhaps because Alonso red flagged the course for hours!
Striay said on 15th March 2009, 18:21
non in English that i know of but http://www.sportlifepress.com is good also http://www.directo.thef1.es/tests/ is the one i used today!
P.S. Keith its ok i was just wondering you are normally very quick to post it!
Robert said on 15th March 2009, 17:35
Well at least with McLaren not running I don’t have anything to get worried about.
gabal said on 15th March 2009, 17:39
Keith, I think Williams planed to test on Thursday too, they were supposed to be the only one but McLaren will probably join them too…
Ali said on 15th March 2009, 17:40
I thought that teams have mileage limit not test day limit. As long as they don’t complete 15.000 km, shouldn’t they be allowed to do test? Have any idea guys?
Ali said on 16th March 2009, 7:05
No body?
ajokay said on 15th March 2009, 17:40
Didn’t realise the testing started today, thought it started tomorrow.
Good to see Brawn still at the top, after many many laps.
Striay said on 15th March 2009, 18:23
yep, been to the circuits website, and Williams will be with Nakajima on Thursday alongside Mclaren with Kovalinen.
Eduardo Colombi said on 15th March 2009, 20:05
think that mclaren wants to see other testing and then have the final day alone in jerez, with no interruptions. very nice tactic i think…
Does any one knows if Brawn have new sponsors?
dmw said on 15th March 2009, 23:58
My read is Brawn needs sponsors, so he needs to get attention. That means many many revs, low fuel, and maybe even some ballast forgotten in the garage. It would be the sporting coup of the century of Honda/Brawn went from being seconds off the pace to dominating in one season.
Kovy said on 16th March 2009, 1:11
It happened with McLaren going into1 1998 (mid field car in ’97 to lapping the field half way through the first race of’98.)