(photo credit: flickr/Code Rodefeld)
Michael Schumacher may have had the fastest time at the second day of testing in Jerez with a lap time of 1:18.561.
But once again, he’s in last year’s Mercedes just testing out the new tires. Nobody cares. Or apparently people do care, but once again I stress: it’s pre-season testing and it’s not even the car he’ll be driving come Australia.
Of the new, shiny, ugly 2012 cars, Mark Webber and the Red Bull RB8 were quickest. Webber’s fastest lap was 1:19.184. Webber ran 58 laps in the car.
Daniel Ricciardo in the Toro Rosso was the only other car to manage a lap under 80 seconds.
Pastor Maldonado was able to complete twice as many laps today for Williams.
BONUS: nobody has crashed so far! However, it was not a good day for Kimi.
Raikkonen went off into the gravel and damaged the car crossing back over the curbing. He also brought the gravel onto the track so practice was stopped to remove it. After some quick repairs, Kimi was back out and set a 5th fastest time.
Fellow Finn Heikki Kovalainen completed a whopping 78 laps today.
Jules Bianchi had his debut with Force India, driving 46 laps in the morning before Paul di Resta took over in the afternoon.
Tomorrow we’ll see Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel in their teams’ new cars for the first time.
