03 March 2010

F1 tests.


Last Saturday I went to Montmeló to attend the last F1 tests before the start of the championship. It was really spectacular, the engine sound was completely different from the one you can hear in the television. The sound was very loud so sometimes you had to cover your ears because it was really painful. My father, my brother and I spent the whole day there and we could see the new cars and the new teams that there will be this year: Lotus, Virgin and Mercedes-Petronas (which was Brawn GP last year). Of course we saw the new Ferrari driven by Massa and also we saw last year champion: Jenson Button who this year is driving for McLaren. These are the times of the session:

1

N. Rosberg

Mercedes

1:20:686


128

2

S. Buemi

Toro Rosso

1:21:413

+0.727s

106

3

J. Button

McLaren

1:21:450

+0.764s

105

4

R. Barrichello

Williams

1:21:975

+1.289s

101

5

F. Massa

Ferrari

1:22:344

+1.658s

115

6

V. Petrov

Renault

1:22:523

+1.837s

68

7

A.Sutil

Force India

1:22:606

+1.920s

61

8

S. Vettel

Red Bull

1:23:123

+2.437s

51

9

J. Trulli

Lotus

1:25:059

+4.373s

102

10

K. Kobayashi

Sauber

1:26:216

+5.530s

105

11

T. Glock

Virgin

1:26:216

+5.619s

31


We also tried a F1 simulator which was really realistic because the seat had some hydraulic-suspensions and when you brake, it pushed you forward and when you accelerate it made the inverse. Also if you go out of the limits of the circuit it shook you a lot. Really it was quite good but a bit hard to drive.

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