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Massa continues to show well in testing

Flow visualisation paint back out at McLaren

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2 February 2010 - 13:38

The second day of testing in Valencia got underway in cold and sunny conditions this morning and Felipe Massa quickly moved to the top of the timesheets with a best time of 1:11.722s, eight-tenths up on his own best recorded on Monday.

Ferrari reports that Massa is happy with the early running of the F10, even with the newer narrow Bridgestone front tyres that invite unwanted understeer. The Brazilian also tried out the latest all-black carbon fibre crash helmet on offer from Schubert ahead of the lunch break.

Kamui Kobayashi had his first run in the new Sauber Ferrari as was an encouraging second fastest while Lewis Hamilton has his first run in the new McLaren Mercedes. Interestingly, flow visualisation paint - commonly used by the team as it struggled to get last year’s MP4-24 contender up to speed - is back in evidence on the MP4-25 challenger. Hamilton was third fastest.

Nico Rosberg is the sole Mercedes driver on track today, having shared the new MGP W01 with Michael Schumacher on Monday. The German racer posted the fourth best time ahead of Rubens Barrichello, Robert Kubica and Sebastien Buemi.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
01.	Massa	Ferrari F10	1:11.722	+0.000	56
02.	Kobayashi	Sauber C29	1:12.056	+0.334	29
03.	Hamilton	McLaren MP4-25	1:12.508	+0.786	50
04.	Rosberg	Mercedes GP W01	1:12.899	+1.177	41
05.	Barrichello	Williams FW32	1:13.377	+1.655	45
06.	Kubica	Renault R30	1:13.659	+1.937	59
07.	Buemi	Toro Rosso STR5	1:14.862	+3.140	41