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Barcelona Test: another wet morning in Catalunya

Hamilton ups the pace for McLaren

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20 February 2011 - 13:41

The Formula One teams got another opportunity to test the wet and intermediates Pirelli tyres this morning as overnight rain meant the track was wet when the light went green.

Some drivers were caught out by the tricky conditions. Maldonado went off at Turn 5 at 9.45am, slightly damaging his Williams FW33. Fellow rookie Sergio Perez ran off track at Turn 4 at 11am. At this point, the track was gently drying.

Having taken over from Alonso, Felipe Massa lapped consistently fast this morning but spun twice – at Turn 4 at 11.35am and at Turn 7 shortly after noon.

Things are still not looking so good for McLaren. The team missed some track time this morning with mechanical problems on its new MP4-26. Lewis Hamilton managed to complete some laps before the lunch break and set the fastest time.

Narain Karthikeyan replaced Tonio Liuzzi at the wheel of the HRT today, while Daniel Ricciardo was on duty for Toro Rosso. Both of them will be replaced this afternoon, respectively by Giorgio Mondini and Sébastien Buemi.

Testing will resume at 2pm, on a dry track.

Fastest lap times at 1pm:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Times	Gap	Laps
01	L. Hamilton	McLaren MP4-26	1.28.053		42
02	D. Ricciardo	Toro Rosso STR6	1.28.329	+0.276	42
03	A. Sutil	Force India VJM04	1.28.422	+0.369	56
04	V. Petrov	Lotus Renault R31	1.29.648	+1.595	38
05	S. Perez	Sauber C30	1.30.374	+2.321	41
06	M. Webber	Red Bull RB7	1.30.497	+2.444	64
07	N. Karthikeyan	HRT F1 F110	1.30.722	+2.669	32
08	T. Glock	Virgin MVR-02	1.31.436	+3.383	56
09	F. Massa	Ferrari F150	1.35.212	+7.159	42
10	P. Maldonado	Williams FW33	1.43.121	+15.068	11
11	N. Rosberg	Mercedes GP W02	1.43.268	+15.215	31
12	J. Trulli	Team Lotus T128	1.43.860	+15.807	24