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 BARCELONA - 2nd pre season tests The second pre season testing at Barcelona got completed. Again there's not much to infer from it. The first 3 days were dry and testing went on as usual, but the last day was plagued by rain. Here are the lap times for day1 of test 2: 1  Rosberg Mercedes  1m22.616s 2  Raikkonen Lotus  1m22.623s  +0.007 3  Alonso Ferrari  1m22.952s  +0.336 4  Vettel Red Bull  1m22.965s  +0.349 5  Maldonado Williams  1m23.733s  +1.117 Vettel set the quickest lap time by lunch break, and went even quicker later on as he shaved a few fractions of his earlier set time. But he was quickly beaten by Rosberg who was on a flying lap. Raikkonen managed a few laps and missed out on P1 by 7 thousandths of a second! But that was good enough for ...

Author's note : Its a bit too late to post an article on Jerez tests, when the second test at Barcelona has already begun, but I think that's okay. And just to hint you: Jerez is pronounced 'Hur-ez', just a note cause I kept pronouncing it the wrong way (until I saw Ted Kravitz, from Sky F1 do the correct pronunciation) and happened to get embarrassed when I had to use that word in front of a crowd. Jerez Testing The first pre season testing just finished. And just like last year, Lotus, Ferrari, RedBull Racing, McLaren and Mercedes looked pretty good. In fact, include the Force India and the sauber who looked to be contending for the top 3 lap times. So, what exactly did happen the last time when many cars looked pretty quick? Oh yea, 7 different winners in 7 races from 5 different teams. There's nothing that stops it from happening again.. A few conclusions that can be taken out of this first test.  Firstly, this isn't the first time Mer...