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Jerez Test: Massa leads the way

As testing resumes

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10 February 2011 - 13:36

Formula One’s 2nd official test of the year started this morning at Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.

The eleven teams present – HRT decided to skip this test and head to Monza for some filming work with Pirelli next week – will be testing for four consecutive days.

Showing their support for the injured Robert Kubica, the teams all had a ‘get well soon’ message written in Polish on the engine cover or wings of their cars.

The new McLaren MP4-26, Force India VJM04 and Virgin Racing MVR-02 had their first official outing today. The three teams completed several installation laps and lengthy systems checks in the morning.

At midday, Felipe Massa had the fastest time and was leading from Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian was on duty this morning but will hand over the wheel of the Scuderia Toro Rosso STR6 to Jaime Alguersuari in the afternoon.

Testing will continue until 5pm.

The fastest lap times at 12h45 :

Pos.	Driver	Team	Lap times	Gap	Laps
01	F. Massa	Ferrari F150	1.20.709		35
02	S. Perez	Sauber C30	1.21.483	+0.774	41
03	D. Ricciardo	Toro Rosso STR6	1.21.755	+1.046	31
04	M. Webber	Red Bull RB7	1.22.257	+1.548	30
05	L. Hamilton	McLaren MP4-26	1.22.283	+1.574	26
06	V. Petrov	Lotus Renault R31	1.24.453	+3.744	14
07	J. Trulli	Team Lotus T128	1.24.792	+4.083	28
08	N. Rosberg	Mercedes GP W02	1.24.805	+4.096	16
09	A. Sutil	Force India VJM04	1.30.718	+10.009	3
10	P. Maldonado	Williams FW33	1.32.809	+12.100	2
11	T. Glock	Virgin MVR-02	1.44.910	+24.201	1