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Barcelona Day 2: McLaren Trail Ferrari Again
By Sam Cooper November 16 2007
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes have completed the second day of testing at the Barcelona circuit in eastern Spain. Test and reserve driver Pedro de la Rosa and Gary Paffett were testing for the British team today. Pedro ended the day 2nd, as Gary finished the day in 5th place, just under a second behind seven time world champion Michael Schumacher.

Seven time world champion Michael Schumacher finished the second day of testing at the Barcelona circuit fastest, for the second day in succession. The German completed a best time of 1:21.922, in this years championship winning F2007.

He was followed by McLarens test and reserve driver Pedro de la Rosa, who finished the day 0.4 seconds behind Michael. Pedro and Gary were working on preparations for the 2008 season. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa finished the day fourth, six tenths of a second behind his former team mate.

DTM driver Gary Paffett finished an impressive 5th a couple of tenths behind Paffet in the MP4-22. William’s Nico Rosberg finished the day in 6th place, nine tenths of as second shy of Michael. David Coulthard in the Red Bull and Nick Heidfeld finished in 7th and 8th places respectively.

Kazuki Nakajima finished in a very respectable 9th position seven tenths of a second behind his more experienced team mate. Sebastian Vettel in the Toro Rosso ended the second day in an impressive 10th place.

Times will be shown below.

Pos.DriverTeamTimeLaps
1M. SchumacherFerrari01:21.48690
2P. de la RosaMcLaren01:21.85760
3H. KovalainenRenault01:21.89465
4F. MassaFerrari01:22.04456
5G. PaffettMcLaren01:22.29357
6N. RosbergWilliams01:22.33364
7D. CoulthardRed Bull01:22.55574
8N. HeidfeldBMW01:22.946102
9K. NakajimaWilliams01:23.03177
10S. VettelToro Rosso01:23.18774
11K. ChandhokRed Bull01:23.25557
12J. ButtonHonda01:23.35879
13J. TrulliToyota01:23.46554
14R. KubicaBMW01:23.48837
15A. DavidsonSuper Aguri01:23.54780
16L. FilippiHonda01:23.59674
17S. BourdaisToro Rosso01:23.75372
18F. MontagnyToyota01:23.97745
19C. KlienForce India F101:24.44656
20A. SutilForce India F101:24.537105
21V. LiuzziForce India F101:24.55555
 

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