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Jerez Test: Schumacher now setting the pace

Ahead of Massa and Webber

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11 February 2011 - 13:12

Mercedes GP started to concentrate on the performance of his W02 today… and it reflected in the lap times at midday.

Michael Schumacher topped the list with a fastest 1’20’’352, and 57 laps under his belt. He beat his former teammate Felipe Massa by a few hundredths of a second. Mark Webber was third fastest for reigning World Champions Red Bull.

It is still hard to draw any conclusions from these lap times though as everybody is running different fuel loads.

The morning session was interrupted twice. It was first stopped when Jaime Alguersuari went off track. It was stopped a second time when Vitaly Petrov also went off. The Russian was concentrating on set up work and tyres evaluation. He is due to complete a race simulation in the afternoon.

Meanwhile at Williams, Pastor Maldonado was finally able to get some more laps at the wheel of the FW33 – he had been hampered yesterday by problems with his adjustable rear wing.

The fastest lap times at 1pm:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Times	Gap	Laps
01	M. Schumacher	Mercedes GP W02	1.20.352		57
02	F. Massa	Ferrari F150	1.20.413	+0.061	56
03	M. Webber	Red Bull RB7	1.21.613	+1.261	46
04	J. Button	McLaren MP4-26	1.21.614	+1.262	28
05	S. Perez	Sauber C30	1.21.857	+1.505	45
06	J. Alguersuari	Toro Rosso STR6	1.22.049	+1.697	12
07	A. Sutil	Force India VJM04	1.22.445	+2.093	42
08	P. Maldonado	Williams FW33	1.22.591	+2.239	31
09	V. Petrov	Lotus Renault R31	1.23.041	+2.689	30
10	J. Trulli	Team Lotus T128	1.23.216	+2.864	35
11	T. Glock	Virgin MVR-02	1.25.874	+5.522	15