Before a crowd of spectators, the Spanish driver Fernando Alonso completed the circuit of Jerez de la Frontera whopping 131 laps without any technical problems.
State of emergency in Jerez de la Frontera: because this Saturday thousands of Andalusian fans came to see Fernando Alonso in the new Ferrari, all accesses were top of traffic, which in the track.
With all the audience yet to Alonso, the Asturian not disappoint and stayed only 0,132 seconds behind Nick Heidfeld with Renault R31 surprised at first taking contact.
Ferrari was very positive on the one hand the Ferrari F150th Italy finished second and also showed high reliability, according to analysts is more consistent car currently on the grid. Between the 217 laps of Felipe Massa and the 131 added Alonso, the new Ferrari leads more than 2,600 evidence accumulated miles.
"It's very important to many kilometres without problems," said the Spanish.
"We have gathered a large amount of data, is particularly useful for understanding the behavior of tires in this test, i.e. the more unknown that we I said this in Valencia and I repeat again..." The timelines we not look at the rest, it is best to do our own thing. Then we will see what happens in Bahrain. “
At least compared to Massa is admissible, since according to Ferrari, Alonso made a program similar to the Brazilian in the previous days.
In terms of equality, Massa left his fastest lap in 1: 20.413 minutes yesterday and was only eight hundredths of a second faster than Alonso but the Asturian has yet another opportunity to improve.
Incidentally, Alonso took today with a special helmet, helmet with the design of his stricken friend Robert Kubica.
"I am delighted that Robert condition is better every day," said the pilot of Ferrari, who shares the passion with Kubica in card games. "Now, of course, you must have patience, but the important thing is that he is better."
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