New Red Bull as F1 arrives to Jerez

Like any other can of Red Bull on wheels that you’ve seen out there before:

The RB6 is an evolution of last year’s model, which was by far the team’s most successful car ever (even counting previous incarnations of it such as Jaguar and Stewart). My very non-technically-savy eyes spot very little interesting about it.

It ran today on Jerez, as did the cars of other 9 teams, but this day was a very boring waste of time for anyone eager to know how does the cars compare to each other, as the track was wet almost the whole time. The best times were set on the first hour of test before the rain arrived, and Nico Rosberg got a pretty meaningless quickest lap for Mercedes GP. Virgin Racing made their debut on official testing sessions, Glock being 17.8 seconds off the pace because he only ran in the wet, and only did 5 laps.

Times from Autosport:

Pos Driver              Team           Time           Gap   Laps
1. Nico Rosberg        Mercedes       1m20.927s              57
2. Sebastien Buemi     Toro Rosso     1m21.031s   +0.104     84
3. Nico Hulkenberg     Williams       1m22.243s   +1.316    118
4. Fernando Alonso     Ferrari        1m22.895s   +1.968     88
5. Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber         1m23.287s   +2.860     55
6. Jenson Button       McLaren        1m24.947s   +4.020     68
7. Vitantonio Liuzzi   Force India    1m24.968s   +4.041     71
8. Vitaly Petrov       Renault        1m25.440s   +4.513     27
9. Mark Webber         Red Bull       1m26.502s   +5.575     50
10. Timo Glock          Virgin         1m38.734s  +17.807      5