Circuit de Catalunya: Testing Day Eight

Day eight and the final day of testing in Barcelona at the Circuit de Catalunya saw Kimi Raikkonen at the top of the time sheets. Though Raikkonen has only taken part in four pre-season test days this year due to a problem with one of the front suspension mountings on the E20 at the second test, he has topped two of them. With 121 laps done on Sunday, Raikkonen's time of 1:22.030 (which was achieved in the morning session) held on to top spot.

Coming in with the second quickest time of the day (1:22.250), Fernando Alonso was able to put in 115 laps in day eight in Barcelona. The team admitted on Friday that it is still struggling to get a full understanding of the car and then cancelled all driver interviews for the remainder of the weekend.

What caught most people by surprise at Sunday's test was Red Bull's absence for much of the afternoon session. Sebastian Vettel completed just 17 laps in the updated RB8 before a gearbox problem left him garage-bound. Vettel returned to the track with only a few minutes of the remaining but was only able to add another five laps to his tally. All while this was occurring, Vettel damaged the car's new front wing after jumping across a gravel trap early in the morning.

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Times

	Driver	Car	Time	Laps
1.	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus E20	1:22.030	121
2.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari F2012	1:22.250	115
3.	Bruno Senna	Williams FW34	1:22.296	53
4.	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India VJM05	1:22.312	101
5.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber C31	1:22.386	72
6.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren MP4-27	1:22.430	115
7.	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham CT01	1:22.795	101
8.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes W03	1:22.939	100
9.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams FW34	1:23.347	48
10.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso STR7	1:23.393	100
11.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull RB8	1:23.608	23