Vettel on top at lunch on last day of testing

[TheStig]

Sebastian Vettel is on top at lunch on the final day of testing in Barcelona. The times look like this...


1 Vettel 1:19.295 44
2 Bourdais 1:19.839 62
3 Buemi 1:20.154 64
4 Paffett 1:21.140 40
5 Button 1:21.515 43
6 Klien 1:21.534 46
7 Heidfeld 1:21.592 52
8 Piquet 1:22.148 66
9 Senna 1:22.428 61
10 Badoer 1:22.866 72
11 Hulkenberg 1:22.946 19
12 De La Rosa 1:23.103 45
13 Fisichella 1:23.252 58


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[John S]

For just a moment Stig I thought Sebastian had taken up Cricket when i saw the headline.

I think both the Red Bull outfits have been running 08 spec cars for the entire test days which would account for them topping the time sheets right through.

They have been evaluating drivers at STR so it makes sense to have them all run with the old package to judge relative merit, I can only suppose the main Red Bull team wanted to keep Vettel's confidence up by letting him get used to the 08 car in race trim.

Clearly the new 09 and interim cars at the moment seem to be suffering a drop off in speed over last year. It's early days though and we probably can't read to much into these test times.