2013 Jerez Test

The 2013 Jerez Test was the first official testing event of the 2013 Formula One Season. It was a scheduled four-day test session that took place at the Circuito de Jerez, in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain between February 5–8th 2013.
The test session is was attended by all 11 teams of the 2013 Formula One Season. All teams except for débuted their new cars at the event. Williams fielded a modified version of their 2012 season car, with the FW35 being unveiled at the next test in Barcelona on 19th February.
 did not confirm that their second driver until after this event. This has meant that Paul di Resta was the only confirmed driver for Force India at the event, with reserve drivers James Rossiter and Jules Bianchi also taking part.
Most notably, however, 's Fernando Alonso did not take part in the test, with Felipe Massa driving in the first three days and Pedro de la Rosa taking part on the final day.
Both and unveiled their cars on the morning of the first day of testing.
Massa set the quickest time of the test, while Esteban Gutiérrez drove the most laps.
==Driver Running Order==
Team	Car 	Day 1 (Tue) 	Day 2 (Wed) 	Day 3 (Thu) 	Day 4 (Fri)
 	RB9 	Mark Webber 	Mark Webber 	Sebastian Vettel 	Sebastian Vettel
 	F138 	Felipe Massa 	Felipe Massa 	Felipe Massa 	Pedro de la Rosa
 	MP4-28	Jenson Button 	Sergio Pérez 	Jenson Button 	Sergio Pérez
 	E21 	Romain Grosjean 	Romain Grosjean 	Kimi Räikkönen 	Kimi Räikkönen
 	F1 W04	Nico Rosberg 	Lewis Hamilton 	Nico Rosberg 	Lewis Hamilton
 	C32 	Nico Hülkenberg 	Nico Hülkenberg 	Esteban Gutiérrez 	Esteban Gutiérrez
 	VJM06 	Paul di Resta 	Paul di Resta James Rossiter	James Rossiter Paul di Resta	Jules Bianchi Paul di Resta
 	FW34* 	Pastor Maldonado 	Pastor Maldonado 	Valtteri Bottas 	Valtteri Bottas
 	STR8 	Daniel Ricciardo 	Daniel Ricciardo 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	Jean-Éric Vergne
 	CT03 	Giedo van der Garde	Giedo van der Garde 	Charles Pic 	Charles Pic
 	MR02 	Max Chilton 	Luiz Razia 	Max Chilton 	Luiz Razia
Source: 
* car.
==Overview==
===Report===
====Day 1====
The first day of testing began with both and launching their cars in the early morning. New recruit, Nico Hülkenberg, was the first driver out, followed by Mark Webber and Pastor Maldonado. The first flying lap of the session, however, was performed by Felipe Massa, who dragged his around on intermediates in a time of one minute 35.607 seconds, over 15 seconds off the normal pace. There was little initial action, as the teams performed systems checks and calibrations.
's Jenson Button was the victim of the first red flag of the day, possibly caused by fuel starvation. One hour in, the best time had been set by Romain Grosjean, with a time of 1:20.846.
The second red flag was caused by Nico Rosberg's , whose car was emitting smoke. Mercedes retired from the day's testing to resolve the issue. McLaren were able to repair Button's car, and he returned back to the track in the early afternoon.
Without an official lunch break, there were rarely no cars on track. Midway through the afternoon, Max Chilton went off the track at the back straight and got stuck in the gravel, necessitating another red flag, which took about 20 minutes to sort out. When the car was returned to the garage, Marussia identified an issue with the rear suspension, and took no further part in the days running.
With about ten minutes to go, Button set the fastest time of the day – 1:18.681 – on the hard tyre, beating the next-quickest driver, Webber, by over eight tenths of a second.
====Day 2====
At the start of the day, Luiz Razia was confirmed as the partner to Max Chilton at . He was immediately put into the hotseat, performing the days testing for the team.
Nico Hülkenberg was the first driver out again, along with seven other drivers, and they were soon joined by Lewis Hamilton, who was driving the for the first time. Soon enough, Razia got his first taste of his MR02, leaving only Sergio Pérez the only driver to not venture out onto track in the first ten minutes.
Around half an hour in, Daniel Ricciardo, just after setting a quick lap time, stopped between turns 10 and 11. Over ten minutes later, testing was resumed. Ricciardo later set the first time under one minute twenty seconds of the day. Hamilton managed a time a tenth off Ricciardo's a few minutes later, before suffering a brake failure and crashing heavily at the Dry Sack hairpin. Once again, Mercedes were unable to do any more running of the car for the remainder of the day. Fifteen minutes later, cars were allowed back on track.
The times continued to fall throughout the morning, Romain Grosjean laying down a strong marker of 1:18.828. Fifteen minutes before 1 o'clock, Razia's day was ruined as he came to a halt on the pit straight, which was quickly dealt with. Marussia later identified it as a problem with the engine, which was not resolved by the end of the day's testing and Razia was unable to drive any more laps.
As expected, during the lunch hours there was limited running, and with a mostly clear track, Grosjean was able to further reduce his time by a couple of hundredths. At about 3 o'clock, he reduced it further, by six and a half tenths to 1:18.218, which would not be beaten in the remaining two hours.
With an hour to go, James Rossiter got a go in the , replacing Paul di Resta. Di Resta had set what would turn out to be the second best time of the day, at 1:19.003.
In the dying minutes, both Grosjean and Hülkenberg stopped out on track, bring out a fourth red flag of the day, with the most likely reason being that they were testing their cars on very low fuel levels.
====Day 3====
The third day of the test began without being preceded by any formalities. Felipe Massa was the first out, along with Max Chilton, Kimi Räikkönen and Jean-Éric Vergne. Nine of the eleven teams released their drivers out in the first fifteen minutes. Sebastian Vettel joined in after about forty minutes.
90 minutes in, Massa set the quickest time of 1:19.005; his quickest of the test so far. After two hours, Nico Rosberg had already completed more laps than both he and Lewis Hamilton managed for in the first two days. The was also an incident involving 's simulator driver James Rossiter, who hit one of his mechanics in the pit lane, who thankfully was uninjured.
Charles Pic, who was the other driver to get on track late, caused the first red flag two and half hours into the day. His had stopped on track just before turn 2. After just over ten minutes, testing was back up and running again. Soon after this, Massa set the first (and only) sub-1 minute 18 second lap of test, on the soft tyre.
By "lunchtime", Rosberg had completed 86 laps in four hours, with no-one other than Massa setting a time under 1 minute 19 seconds. At two o'clock, Paul di Resta replaced Rossiter in the Force India car.
Not long after two o'clock, Vergne stopped on at the end of the pit lane, bringing out the second red flag of the day, which, due the position of the stoppage, was cleared up in just five minutes.
Not much action took place in the afternoon otherwise. Rosberg kept plugging in laps, ending with 148 of them at the end of the day, equal to 655.344 kilometres (407.148 miles), a total greater than two races.
A final red flag, five minutes before the end, effectively ended proceedings early. It was caused by Jenson Button's stopping on track between turns 7 and 8.
====Day 4====
The sesssion started with Kimi Räikkönen, Jean-Éric Vergne, Esteban Gutiérrez, Charles Pic and Jules Bianchi all heading out at the start. They were soon joined by Lewis Hamilton.
Pedro de la Rosa, driving the for the first time, exited onto the track about an hour into the session. His run was short-lived; on his second installation lap, an oil leak caused his car to catch fire, bringing out the red flag. Within twenty minutes, the track was all-clear.
But only for fifteen minutes, as Gutiérrez ran out of fuel. This was sorted out in a few minutes, and the track was clear once again. The car was not damaged in any way, and at about 12pm, Gutiérrez set the quickest time of the day so far.
Sebastian Vettel proved the 's raw speed by setting a faster time ten minutes later.
Ten minutes before 1pm, the kerbing between turns 10 and 11 was damaged. Initially, debris was found on the track, which brought out a red flag. With the debris picked up, the green flag was shown – but for about two minutes, as the damaged kerb needed to be repaired. Quick-drying cement was applied, and an hour after the damage was noticed, the cement was dry enough to be driven on and testing began once again. The end of the test was pushed back half an hour to 4:30 pm.
Bianchi was replaced by Paul di Resta in the at half past three. Bianchi had set the best time of the day at that point in the day, a 1:18.175. Räikkönen later posted a faster time of 1:18.148.
Räikkönen's time was not beaten, and he ended the day as the fastest driver. Hamilton and Gutiérrez drove the most laps (145 and 142 respectively).
===Best times===
====By day====
Day 	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time
Feb 5	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-28	 	1:18.681
Feb 6	Romain Grosjean	 	E21 	 	1:18.218
Feb 7	Felipe Massa 	 	F138 	 	1:17.879
Feb 8	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	E21 	 	1:18.149
====By driver====
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Days 	Laps
1 	Felipe Massa 	 	F138 	 	1:17.879	1, 2, 3 	227
2 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	E21 	 	1:18.148	3, 4 	123
3 	Jules Bianchi 	 	VJM06 	 	1:18.175	4 	56
4 	Romain Grosjean 	 	E21 	 	1:18.218	1, 2 	149
5 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	RB9 	 	1:18.565	3, 4 	198
6 	Esteban Gutiérrez 	 	C32 	 	1:18.669	3, 4 	252
7 	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-28	 	1:18.681	1, 3 	120
8 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	STR8 	 	1:18.760	3, 4 	177
9 	Nico Rosberg 	 	F1 W04	 	1:18.766	1, 3 	159
10 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W04	 	1:18.905	2, 4 	160
11 	Sergio Pérez 	 	MP4-28	 	1:18.944	2, 4 	179
12 	Paul di Resta 	 	VJM06 	 	1:19.003	1, 2, 3, 4	240
13 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	STR8 	 	1:19.134	1, 2 	153
14 	James Rossiter 	 	VJM06 	 	1:19.303	2, 3 	61
15 	Mark Webber 	 	RB9 	 	1:19.338	1, 2 	174
16 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	C32 	 	1:19.502	1, 2 	178
17 	Valtteri Bottas 	 	FW34* 	 	1:19.856	3, 4 	178
18 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	F138 	 	1:20.316	4 	51
19 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	FW34* 	 	1:20.693	1, 2 	155
20 	Max Chilton 	 	MR02 	 	1:21.269	1, 3 	107
21 	Charles Pic 	 	CT03 	 	1:21.105	3, 4 	164
22 	Luiz Razia 	 	MR02 	 	1:21.226	2, 4 	113
23 	Giedo van der Garde	 	CT03 	 	1:21.311	1, 2 	152
* car.
Most laps by a driver: Esteban Gutiérrez (), 252.
Most laps by a team: , 430.
Most laps in a day: Nico Rosberg (), 148 (day 3).
==Times==
===Day 1, 5th February===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-28	 	1:18.861	 	37
2 	Mark Webber 	 	RB9 	 	1:19.709	+ 0.848 s	73
3 	Romain Grosjean 	 	E21 	 	1:19.796	+ 0.935 s	54
4 	Paul di Resta 	 	VJM06 	 	1:20.343	+ 1.482 s	89
5 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	STR8 	 	1:20.401	+ 1.540 s	70
6 	Felipe Massa 	 	F138 	 	1:20.536	+ 1.675 s	64
7 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	C32 	 	1:20.699	+ 1.838 s	79
8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	F1 W04	 	1:20.846	+ 1.935 s	11
9 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	FW34* 	 	1:20.864	+ 2.003 s	84
10 	Giedo van der Garde	 	CT03 	 	1:21.915	+ 3.054 s	64
11 	Max Chilton 	 	MR02 	 	1:24.176	+ 5.315 s	29
* car.
===Day 2, 6th February===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Romain Grosjean 	 	E21 	 	1:18.218	 	95
2 	Paul di Resta 	 	VJM06 	 	1:19.003	+ 0.785 s	95
3 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	STR8 	 	1:19.134	+ 0.916 s	83
4 	Mark Webber 	 	RB9 	 	1:19.338	+ 1.120 s	101
5 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	C32 	 	1:19.502	+ 1.284 s	99
6 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W04	 	1:19.519	+ 1.301 s	15
7 	Sergio Pérez 	 	MP4-28	 	1:19.572	+ 1.354 s	81
8 	Felipe Massa 	 	F138 	 	1:19.974	+ 1.696 s	78
9 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	FW34* 	 	1:20.693	+ 2.475 s	71
10 	James Rossiter 	 	VJM06 	 	1:21.273	+ 3.055 s	19
11 	Giedo van der Garde	 	CT03 	 	1:21.311	+ 3.093 s	88
12 	Luiz Razia 	 	MR02 	 	1:23.537	+ 5.319 s	31
* car.
===Day 3, 7th February===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Felipe Massa 	 	F138 	 	1:17.879	 	85
2 	Nico Rosberg 	 	F1 W04	 	1:18.766	+ 0.887 s	148
3 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	RB9 	 	1:19.052	+ 1.173 s	102
4 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	E21 	 	1:19.200	+ 1.321 s	40
5 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	STR8 	 	1:19.247	+ 1.368 s	85
6 	James Rossiter 	 	VJM06 	 	1:19.303	+ 1.424 s	42
7 	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-28	 	1:19.603	+ 1.724 s	83
8 	Esteban Gutiérrez	 	C32 	 	1:19.934	+ 2.055 s	110
9 	Max Chilton 	 	MR02 	 	1:21.269	+ 3.390 s	78
10 	Valtteri Bottas 	 	FW34* 	 	1:21.575	+ 3.696 s	86
11 	Charles Pic 	 	CT03 	 	1:22.352	+ 4.473 s	57
12 	Paul di Resta 	 	VJM06 	 	1:23.729	+ 5.850 s	7
* car.
===Day 4, 8th February===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	E21 	 	1:18.148	 	83
2 	Jules Bianchi 	 	VJM06 	 	1:18.175	+ 0.027 s	56
3 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	RB9 	 	1:18.565	+ 0.417 s	96
4 	Esteban Gutiérrez	 	C32 	 	1:18.669	+ 0.521 s	142
5 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	STR8 	 	1:18.760	+ 0.612 s	92
6 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W04	 	1:18.905	+ 0.757 s	145
7 	Sergio Pérez 	 	MP4-28	 	1:18.944	+ 0.796 s	98
8 	Valtteri Bottas 	 	FW34* 	 	1:19.851	+ 1.703 s	92
9 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	F138 	 	1:20.316	+ 2.168 s	51
10 	Charles Pic 	 	CT03 	 	1:21.105	+ 2.957 s	109
11 	Luiz Razia 	 	MR02 	 	1:21.226	+ 3.078 s	82
12 	Paul di Resta 	 	VJM06 	 	1:23.435	+ 5.287 s	49
* car.
==Notes==
Category:Pre-season testing
Category:2013 Formula One Season