Circuit de Catalunya: Testing Day Five

After missing just over three days of testing last week due to a problem with the Lotus E20's suspension mounting, Lotus made a fantastic return to testing today as Romain Grosjean set the pace on the first day of the final pre-season test in Barcelona. With a time of 1:23.252, Lotus made it past the trials and now are on to their triumphs.

Unlike previous days in testing, there were no true red flags. A few times cars and their driver's were seen to stop on track but there were no accidents.

With a time of 1:23.820, Sauber's Sergio Perez was one of the two unlucky driver's that had stopped out on track. Shortly before the lunch break, Perez stopped his C31on track due to a fuel shortage. Not exactly a shortage but the team ran the car dry in to determine the fuel range.

With a total of 123 laps done today and finishing 9th on the lap board, Vitaly Petrov was the second driver to stop on track. With only 15 minutes left on the time, Petrov parked his CT01 on track. It was a good day all in all though for Caterham as Petrov ended his running only1.624s off the top spot with a 1:24.876.


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Times

	Driver	Car	Time	Laps
1.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus E20	1:23.252	73
2.	Jenson Button	McLaren MP4-27	1:23.510	64
3.	Sergio Perez	Sauber C31	1:23.820	118
4.	Mark Webber	Red Bull RB8	1:23.830	102
5.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes W03	1:23.992	128
6.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso STR7	1:24.216	113
7.	Paul di Resta	Force India VJM05	1:24.305	98
8.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari F2012	1:24.318	105
9.	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham CT01	1:24.876	123
10.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams FW34	1:25.587	58