Barcelona: Ferrari shines, Mercedes lines up

La Team Ferrari achieved the best times in this second week of testing. Kimi Räikkönen set the absolute best time of the 2016 tests in Barcelona by completing a lap of the Circuit de Catalunya in 1'22"765 on day seven. His teammate Sebastian Vettel almost improved this benchmark by failing by less than a tenth on the eighth day with the super soft tires.

Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) is the closest to the performance of the SF16-H with less than three tenths behind a time achieved on the fifth day on soft tires. The Brackley team did not focus on performance, preferring to line up the laps by stringing together race simulations to complete a total of 619 laps. The German was the fastest on medium tires with a time of 1’24”126 achieved on the seventh day.

It was again Kimi Räikkönen who was the most offensive with the medium tires, completing a lap of the track in 1’23”009. Valtteri Bottas (Williams) achieved the best performance on hard tires with a time of 1’25”402.

In terms of relays, the longest was achieved by Max Verstappen (Toro Rosso) with a total of 29 laps completed on medium tires.

The teams' laps in the 2nd week of testing in Barcelona:

Mercedes: 619 laps

Toro Rosso: 602

Ferrari: 501

Williams: 479

McLaren : 453

Red Bull : 448

Force India: 446

Renault : 433

Sauber: 406

Manor: 237

Haas : 193

Stable tours in Barcelona:

Mercedes: 1066 laps

Toro Rosso: 1049

Williams: 856

Ferrari: 854

Sauber: 838 (432 with the 34 C2015)

Red Bull: 817

Renault: 786

Force India: 779

McLaren: 710

Manor: 491

Haas: 474

Kilometers by Power Units in the 2nd week of testing in Barcelona:

Mercedes: 8290 km

Ferrari: 7923 km

Renault: 4100 km

Honda: 2108 km

Kilometers by Power Units in Barcelona:

Mercedes: 15919 km

Ferrari: 14966 km

Renault: 7414 km

Honda: 3304 km

Best times by driver in the 2nd week of testing in Barcelona:

Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari): 1’22”765 (ultra soft)

Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari): 1’22”852 (super soft)

Nico Rosberg (Mercedes): 1’23”022 (soft)

Carlos Sainz Jr (Toro Rosso): 1’23”134 (ultra soft)

Felipe Massa (Williams): 1’23”193 (soft)

Valtteri Bottas (Williams): 1’23”229 (ultra soft)

Nico Hulkenberg (Force India): 1’23”251 (ultra soft)

Max Verstappen (Toro Rosso): 1’23”382 (ultra soft)

Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 1’23”622 (soft)

Sergio Pérez (Force India): 1’23”721 (super soft)

Kevin Magnussen (Renault): 1’23”933 (super soft)

Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull): 1’24”427 (soft)

Jenson Button (McLaren): 1’24”714 (ultra soft)

Fernando Alonso (McLaren): 1’24”735 (soft)

Felipe Nasr (Sauber): 1’24”760 (soft)

Jolyon Palmer (Renault): 1’24”859 (soft)

Pascal Wehrlein (Manor): 1’24”913 (ultra soft)

Marcus Ericsson (Sauber): 1’25”031 (soft)

Daniil Kvyat (Red Bull): 1’25”049 (soft)

Romain Grosjean (Haas): 1’25”255 (soft)

Rio Haryanto (Manor): 1’25”899 (ultra soft)

Esteban Gutiérrez (Haas): 1’26”661 (medium)

Best times per tire from Week 2 in Barcelona testing:

Hard: Valtteri Bottas (Williams): 1’25”402

Tender: Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari): 1’23”009

Ultra soft: Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari): 1’22”765

Medium: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes): 1’24”126

Super soft: Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari): 1’22”852

The best stints by tire in the 2nd week of testing in Barcelona:

Medium: Max Verstappen (Toro Rosso): 29 laps

Hard: Felipe Massa (Williams): 20 laps

Soft: Kevin Magnussen (Renault): 14 laps

Super soft: Felipe Massa (Williams): 7 laps

Ultra soft: Valtteri Bottas (Williams): 7 laps

Discover the report of the winter tests in Barcelona in issue 2053 of AUTOhebdo, available from Monday evening in digital version on all platforms, and from Wednesday on newsstands.