BMW continue to lead on Jerez day two

BMW’s third driver, Christian Klien, led the way on the second day of the Jerez test on Wednesday. His fastest time, a 1:19.537, was 0.2 seconds fastest than Sebstian Vettel testing for the Red Bull senior team as normal testing duties resumed.

Vettel was in action for the Red Bull team as preparation for joining them next year, and allowing Sebastien Buemi to take his seat at Toro Rosso for a day, in an evaluation drive for a 2009 race seat at the team. Buemi finished behind Vettel in third. Test drivers Gary Paffett and Kamui Kobayashi were out for McLaren and Toyota, completing the day fourth and fifth ahead of Lucas di Grassi in the Renault. Honda third driver, Alex Wurz, set a best time of 1:21.123, a full 2 seconds faster than Kazuki Nakajima who was testing out a 2009 regulation rear-wing for Williams.

Testing continues into Thursday, where Nick Heidfeld and Pedro de la Rosa are expected to make an appearance, along with Takuma Sato, also in an evaluation drive for a Toro Rosso seat.

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Heidfeld on top at Monza day two

Nick Heidfeld has topped the time sheets on day two of testing at Monza. Recently Heidfeld has been struggling in timed sessions but today he completed 89 laps to set the fastest time of 1:22.621. Fellow German, Nico Rosberg finished in second for Williams, 0.2 seconds behind the BMW. 

McLaren and Ferrari failed to make it into the 1:22s, finishing 3rd and 5th. They were split by Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel who set a time of 1:23.424, ahead of yesterdays pace setter, Felipe Massa.  His teammate at STR, Sebastain Bourdais, could not match his pace and finished in 10th, almost a second off Vettel’s best lap. He did go faster than Honda though. Both Honda drivers struggled with there cars seeing Barrichello 0.3 seconds behind the French drivers time and Button the only man into the 1:25s.

Fernando Alonso was out for Renault, placing the car fifth. The other Renault powered car, in the hands of Mark Webber, ended up in seventh. Red Bull had been beaten by Force India who continued there good form with a 1:23.823 set by Adrain Sutil.

All the German drivers punched above their weight today and times spread out from Wednesday. Testing concludes in Monza tomorrow.

Results

1.	Nick Heidfeld	BMW	1:22.621s	89 Laps
2.	Nico Rosberg	Williams	1:22.879s	100 Laps
3.	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	1:23.341s	92 Laps
4.	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:23.424s	47 Laps
5.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:23.445s	86 Laps
6.	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:23.606s	95 Laps
7.	Adrian Sutil	Force India	1:23.823s	92 Laps
8.	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:23.936s	101 Laps
9.	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:24.158s	77 Laps
10.	Sebastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:24.311s	44 Laps
11.	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:24.695s	51 Laps
12.	Jenson Button	Honda	1:25.058s	42 Laps

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