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Testing at the Jerez circuit
31 January 2014
Circuit: Jerez circuit – 4.428 km
Driver Fernando Alonso
Car: Ferrari F14 T
Weather: air temperature 11/14°C, track temperature
11/15 °C. Rain in the
morning, cloudy in the afternoon with light rain at
times.
Laps/Kms. completed: 115/509
Best time: 1:29.145
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Ferrari’s first pre-season test session ended today at Jerez de la
Frontera.
For the second consecutive day, Fernando Alonso was at
the wheel of the F14 T. Given the
weather, work in the first part of the day centred on
evaluating the Pirelli wet tyres and on further
work on management of the various procedures that are
used on the new car. In the afternoon,
the team and driver were able to make some set-up
adjustments on the F14 T.
In total, car number 14 covered 115 laps, the quickest
in a time of 1.29.145. Over the four days,
the F14 T did 252 laps, equivalent to 1116 kilometres.
“A busy and very demanding day, during which we were
able to do a good number of laps, which
is the real aim of this first test,” Fernando said to
www.ferrari.com.
“It’s difficult to get a clear
picture of the behaviour of the wet tyres because the
track conditions were in between damp and
dry, which is maybe the worst situation for
understanding how the Intermediates perform. The
afternoon went well and we tried various aerodynamic and
mechanical configurations, gathering a
lot of data that will prove useful to continue the
development work of the car.”
With the Jerez test now over, the next time the car will
appear on track will be on 19 February at
Sakhir, Bahrain, for the second test session that runs for four days
until the 22 nd.
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