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Vettel Tops Timesheets at Jerez Test
By Jamie Makin December 8 2007
Scuderia Toro Rosso's Sebastien Vettel surprised everyone with the fastest lap at Jerez during the final test of 2007. The German set the blazing laptime testing Bridgestone's 2009 slick tyres. His rookie teammate, Sebastien Bourdais, used the current 2007 grooved tyres but still remained less than 2 seconds behind Vettel.
The teams will now enter their winter break and will not see the test track again until the third week of January. Bourdais and Vettel will remain busy as they compete in the December 16 Race of Champions at Wembley Stadium in England.

Laurent Mekies, Chief Engineer:

"This has been a very productive test, the longest of the year for us, with two cars running for four days. During that time there were no driver errors, we completed a high mileage - a total of 577 laps, equivalent to 2552 kilometres - and made good progress with the 2008 systems."

TEST RESULTS:

DAY S. VETTEL S. BOURDAIS
4/12/07 11th - +2.044 6th - +1.573
5/12/07 8th - +1.027 12th - +1.162
6/12/07 12th - +1.182 13th - +1.350
7/12/07 1st - -0.197 8th - +1.820

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9 Dec, 2007 05:28 Report
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Re: Vettel Tops Timesheets at Jerez Test
Okay, I know that it doesn't really mean much since it's only testing & Vettel was on slicks, but still it is great to see STR topping the charts for once! (Sm53)

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(Sm3)Nice to be on top indeed!! Sometimes I'll just take whatever success we can get any way we can get it.

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