Only short- I´m We had a great, great time. We were in a suite direct above the Ferrari box. So we could follow Kimi closely. We had 3 times in the paddock und saw him a few times. One moment he was in such a rush that he nearly collide with a tyres trolly - only to avoid to get in contact with waiting persons My pictures from him are not good because he is always running and hiding behind his shades and cap. But we catch Mr Allison. He sign a picture for our dear Greece. We saw Seb too. He started to run away from people too, must be Kimis bad influence
Tomorrow we will see Barcelona, on saturday we are back at the track.
Pictures when we are at home. The internet in the hotel is not so fast.

Andrea, your post put a smile on my face on a not-so-good day for me so thank you very much.

I'm so happy for you gals, enjoy your sightseeing tomorrow. And be careful with your belongings, I know you gals are not used to do this. But turists have to be careful there, I know for experience.

About Kimi's rush to avoid fans if he only knew how much time we invest in him, he would at least say hi

But if he doesn't, we will still like him anyway so... whatever

Vettel is the first one out on an installation lap.

Quote: Jalumi wrote in post #196

---

Only short- I´m We had a great, great time. We were in a suite direct above the Ferrari box. So we could follow Kimi closely. We had 3 times in the paddock und saw him a few times. One moment he was in such a rush that he nearly collide with a tyres trolly - only to avoid to get in contact with waiting persons My pictures from him are not good because he is always running and hiding behind his shades and cap. But we catch Mr Allison. He sign a picture for our dear Greece. We saw Seb too. He started to run away from people too, must be Kimis bad influence
Tomorrow we will see Barcelona, on saturday we are back at the track.
Pictures when we are at home. The internet in the hotel is not so fast.

---

It seems like a lot of teams are doing aero testing now in the cold conditions.

Vettel finally sets a time 1:30.068.

A stint from Vettel on thee medium tyres:

1:30.6, 1:29.6, 1:29.6, 1:29.8, 1:29.8, 1:29.8, 1:30.0, 1:30.2, 1:30.0 and 1:30.5.

Vettel has actually done a good amount of laps so far, I hope Kimi will also get a lo of running tomorrow.

1. Rosberg Mercedes GP W06 1:25.365 39 Medium
2. Bottas Williams FW37 1:26.032 +0.667 36 Medium
3. Verstappen Toro Rosso STR10 1:26.957 +1.592 40 Medium
4. Nasr Sauber C34 1:27.680 +2.315 41 Development tyre
5. Maldonado Lotus E23 1:28.013 +2.648 39 Medium
6. Button McLaren MP4-30 1:28.646 +3.281 23 Medium
7. Vettel Ferrari SF15-T 1:29.456 +4.091 45 Development tyre
8. Kvyat Red Bull Racing RB11 no time 18 Development tyre
9. Hulkenberg Force India VJM08 no time 0 PIT

quote

---

Barcelona F1 test: Ferrari to try aero upgrades on Friday
By Mitchell Adam Thursday, February 26th 2015, 19:00 GMT

Ferrari is set to introduce new aerodynamic components on Friday, as it gradually upgrades its aero package during Barcelona's final pre-season test.

Kimi Raikkonen set the sixth-fastest time for the team on the opening day, having spent the bulk of his 80 laps on the hard and medium Pirellis.

While new components on the car for Thursday were minimal, Raikkonen is keen to run the updates on Saturday as he alternates days with Sebastian Vettel.

"More or less the car is the same," he said of developments compared to last week's test. "We can get some, but not for today, hopefully for tomorrow.

"I think it's not too bad, really, how the car behaves.

"There are certain things that we want to improve - and we want more grip obviously, always, to go faster - but sometimes it's a bit tricky here with the conditions that we are having.

"If the tyres don't work - one lap they work, next they don't - it changes a lot."

Raikkonen is content with the visible progress Ferrari has made after enduring a troubled 2014 season, especially as he knows there is more to come.

"We've made a good step from last year. It's hard to say from testing, but two weeks will tell us once we're going in Australia," he said.

"Overall it's a good a feeling and we still have one day to put all of the things we have learned together and hopefully we will be happy with everything.

"Obviously a laptime would be good, but we'll see in a few weeks in the first race where we are.

"It's not an issue, as long as you've got a good feeling on every fuel load you run it's usually OK."

---

And in tests Mercedes finally puts on softs and BUM! purple all over and a 1m22.792s lap goes on top of them all.

While Vettel stands 4th and with 126 laps and counting...

quote

---

17:02 Here's the final times:

1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m22.792s
2 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1m23.995s +1.203
3 Felipe Nasr Sauber 1m24.071s +1.279
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m25.339s +2.547
5 Jenson Button McLaren 1m25.590s +2.798
6 Pastor Maldonado Lotus 1m26.705s +3.913
7 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso 1m26.766s +3.974
8 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull 1m26.965s +4.173
9 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1m28.412s +5.620

17:04 And here's the final lap count:

Vettel - 143
Maldonado - 140
Nasr - 141
Verstappen - 139
Rosberg - 106
Button - 101
Bottas - 90
Kvyat - 84
Hukkenberg - 77

---

Vettel did a lot of laps today, that is really good. Mercedes still appears to be on a another playing field, not surprising.

Quote: Boudica wrote in post #207

---

Vettel did a lot of laps today, that is really good. Mercedes still appears to be on a another playing field, not surprising.

---

They catched us
Who wants not to have a picture together with Kimi

tumblr_nkecl48OLS1tr8sbho5_1280.png - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)

So so focused on capturing Kimi's backside ?