Circuito de Jerez: Testing Day Two

Yesterday we saw Kimi Raikkonen take top spot on the testing times after a three year sabbatical, today Michael Schumacher in his Mercedes took fastest lap. With a 1:18.561, Schumacher was able to hold off Mark Webber in the Red Bull.
It would seem impressive that Schumacher's W02 was nearly a second quicker that Webber's RB8 but the W02 is the 2011 model. To look at the testing times from Jerez today, Mark Webber held the quickest time in the 2012 cars.

Day two and again there were only two red flags on track. The first one was for returning Kimi Raikkonen. Raikkonen had run wide while on an early run and scattered 'kitty litter' on circuit. The second red flag was due to what the track officials indicated was oil on the track

Over the course of the day many teams got in some really good running but the kudos goes to Caterham F1. With Heikki Kovalainen in the CT01, Caterham made up much of their lost track time from day one by running 139 laps, what is just over twice the race distance at Jerez! Finishing with a personal best time of 1:21.518, Caterham proved just how useful KERS is within the sport finishing the day only 2.234 seconds behind the fastest 2012 car.

Octane Photo's gallery of testing day two here!


Times

	Driver	Car	Time	Laps
1.	Michael Schumacer	Mercedes W02	1:18.561	132
2.	Mark Webber	Red Bull RB8	1:19.184	97
3.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso STR7	1:19.587	100
4.	Jules Bianchi	Force India VJM05	1:20.221	46
5.	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus E20	1:20.239	117
6.	Paul di Resta	Force India VJM05	1:20.272	69
7.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari F2012	1:20.454	95
8.	Jenson Button	McLaren MP4-27	1:20.688	85
9.	Sergio Perez	Sauber C31	1:20.711	68
10.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams FW34	1:21.197	97
11.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham CT01	1:21.518	139
12.	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT F111	1:22.518	64