Circuit de Catalunya: Testing Day Seven

Day seven of testing Barcelona saw the top nine cars separated by just 0.838 seconds creating one of the closest time sheets. Sergio Perez came fastest with a 1:22.094 during a soft tyre run in the morning.With rain in the afternoon forced the teams to use the intermediate tyres for the first time this year and also guaranteed that Perez's time remained at the top.

Even with the rain falling, there were no real problems on track. A few of the driver's saw themselves in the team garages due to car issues.

Kimi Raikkonen was slowest on day seven as his E20 was sporting a new floor, front and rear wings and barge boards, but Raikkonen's morning run was limited due to a steering column change by the team. He completed just 43 laps in total over the course of the day.

After only 17 laps done in the morning, McLaren saw Jenson Button into the pits with a hydraulic problem for the second half of the session. With only 44 laps done over the course of the day, Button was able to get himself and his MP4-27 in the second place on the timing sheets with a 1:22.103.

The big attraction was with Red Bull and their revised version of the RB8. The team flew out a new chassis to Barcelona and had many of the parts already installed. The team tried to hide its upgrades by swarming the car with mechanics and a rear wing cover on every return to the pits, but several photos revealed a completely new exhaust positioning and front wing.

For a full set of photos of testing in Barcelona day seven, check out Octane Photo's gallery here!

Times

	Driver	Car	Time	Laps
1.	Sergio Perez	Sauber C31	1:22.094	114
2.	Jenson Button	McLaren MP4-27	1:22.103	44
3.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso STR7	1:22.155	131
4.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari F2012	1:22.413	122
5.	Paul di Resta	Force India VJM05	1:22.446	108
6.	Bruno Senna	Williams FW34	1:22.480	111
7.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham CT01	1:22.630	64
8.	Mark Webber	Red Bull RB8	1:22.662	70
9.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes W03	1:22.932	129
10.	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus E20	1:25.620	43