2014 Jerez Test

The 2014 Jerez Test was the first official test session of the 2014 Formula One Season. It took place between January 28th and 31st, 2014 over four days. It will be the first test to take place in January since the first Barcelona Test of 2010. The circuit is the Circuito de Jerez, located in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain.
 did not attend the test, while , , , and all launched their cars on the morning of the first day. missed the first two days after a technical glitch.
Pirelli wet the track on Friday to allow teams to perform wet-weather testing, and had bought along made special cold-weather tyres to cope with the low temperatures.
The first day of the test, was, unsurprisingly lacking in action and only a total of 91 laps were completed, nearly ten seconds slower than the times recorded last year. The fastest driver on the first day was Kimi Räikkönen, driving for , who also completed over one-third of the days laps. driver, Lewis Hamilton, had an accident in the morning after a front wing failure, and Mercedes completed no more laps on the day.
==Driver running order==
Team	Car 	Day 1 (Tue) 	Day 2 (Wed) 	Day 3 (Thu) 	Day 4 (Fri)
 	CT05 	Marcus Ericsson 	Marcus Ericsson 	Robin Frijns 	Kamui Kobayashi
 	F14 T 	Kimi Räikkönen 	Kimi Räikkönen 	Fernando Alonso 	Fernando Alonso
 	VJM07 	Sergio Pérez 	Nico Hülkenberg 	Nico Hülkenberg 	Daniel Juncadella
 	Not attending	Not attending 	Not attending 	Not attending 	Not attending
 	MR03 	Did not run 	Did not run 	Max Chilton 	Jules Bianchi
 	MP4-29 	Did not run 	Jenson Button 	Jenson ButtonKevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen
 	F1 W05 	Lewis Hamilton 	Nico Rosberg 	Lewis Hamilton 	Nico RosbergLewis Hamilton
 	RB10 	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian Vettel	Daniel Ricciardo 	Daniel Ricciardo
 	STR9 	Jean-Éric Vergne	Did not run 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	Daniil Kvyat
 	FW36 	Valtteri Bottas 	Valtteri Bottas 	Felipe Massa 	Felipe Massa
==Overview==
===Report===
====Day 1====
The first day of the 2014 Jerez Test would provide the very first opportunity for the Formula One teams to test and run their new 2014 challengers, marking the first time the new 1.6 litre V6 turbocharged cars would be seen in action. However, Day 1 of the Jerez Test saw very limited running from all the participating teams, being the first time the team's had operated their cars under the new regulations, nearly all the teams suffered from poor reliability as they saw their car's run for the first time.
Kimi Räikkönen, participating for for the first time since completed the most track time at 31 laps as well as setting the fastest time of the day, albeit his car was not immune to reliability issues in which he at one point stopped out on track bringing out the red flags.
Whilst Räikkönen may have been the fastest and done the most running of the day, the team appeared the most organised and prepared upon arriving in Jerez. Lewis Hamilton was the first driver out on track in the new cars and appeared to be on course to do the most significant amount of running before a front-wing failure pitched the Briton into the barriers, ending his day prematurely.
 were also on course for a strong amount of track time, before a software glitch caused Jean-Éric Vergne to stop out on track. All the other driver's and team's that participated throughout the day were only able to complete a handful of laps. Valtteri Bottas was the third quickest on the day for , behind Räikkönen and Hamilton, yet was only able to complete seven laps and was only able to make it out on track in the last hour after engine sensor problem kept him grounded in the pits. Sergio Pérez in his first outing for was fourth but his session ended early in the day after only 11 laps when his car stopped out on track.
Esteban Gutiérrez in the was the only other driver to set a lap-time, completing a total of seven laps throughout the day. were only able to complete a single lap with Marcus Ericsson behind the wheel. The reiging champions encountered severe technical issues which restricted Sebastian Vettel to complete a mere three laps throughout the day. and Jenson Button failed to even make it out on track due to electrical issues surrounding their new car.
Overall the first day of the Jerez Test proved problematic for all team's involved, inwhich no team appeared to be immune from reliabilty issues restricting their available track time.
====Day 2====
====Day 3====
====Day 4====
===Best times===
====By day====
Day 	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time
Jan 28	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	F14 T 	 	1:27.104
Jan 29	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-29	 	1:24.165
Jan 30	Kevin Magnussen	 	MP4-29	 	1:23.276
Jan 31	Felipe Massa 	 	FW36 	 	1:28.229
====By driver====
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Days 	Laps
1 	Kevin Magnussen 	 	MP4-29 	 	1:23.276	3, 4 	162
2 	Felipe Massa 	 	FW36 	 	1:23.700	3, 4 	133
3 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W05 Hybrid	 	1:23.952	1, 3, 4	83
4 	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-29 	 	1:24.165	2, 3 	83
5 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	F14 T 	 	1:24.812	1, 2 	78
6 	Valtteri Bottas 	 	FW36 	 	1:25.344	1, 2 	41
7 	Fernando Alonso 	 	F14 T 	 	1:25.495	3, 4 	173
8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	F1 W05 Hybrid	 	1:25.588	2, 4 	188
9 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	VJM09 	 	1:26.096	3 	17
10 	Sergio Pérez 	 	VJM09 	 	1:28.376	1, 2 	47
11 	Daniel Juncadella	 	VJM09 	 	1:29.457	4 	81
12 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	STR9 	 	1:29.915	1, 3 	45
13 	Adrian Sutil 	 	C33 	 	1:30.161	3, 4 	103
14 	Jules Bianchi 	 	MR03 	 	1:32.222	4 	25
15 	Esteban Gutiérrez	 	C33 	 	1:33.270	1, 2 	60
16 	Marcus Ericsson 	 	CT05 	 	1:37.975	1, 2 	12
17 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	RB10 	 	1:38.320	1, 2 	11
18 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	CT05 	 	1:43.193	4 	54
19 	Daniil Kvyat 	 	STR9 	 	1:44.016	4 	9
20 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	RB10 	 	1:45.374	3, 4 	10
21 	Robin Frijns 	 	CT05 	 	No time 	3 	10
22 	Max Chilton 	 	MR03 	 	no time 	3 	5
Most laps by a driver: Nico Rosberg (), 188.
Most laps by a team: , 271
Most laps in a day: Fernando Alonso (), 115 (day 4).
==Times==
===Day One, 28 January===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	F14 T 	 	1:27.104	 	31
2 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W05	 	1:27.820	+ 0.716 s 	18
3 	Valtteri Bottas 	 	FW36 	 	1:30.082	+ 2.978 s 	6
4 	Sergio Pérez 	 	VJM07 	 	1:33.161	+ 6.057 s 	10
5 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	STR9 	 	1:36.530	+ 9.426 s 	15
6 	Esteban Gutiérrez	 	C33 	 	1:42.257	+ 15.153 s	7
7 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	RB10 	 	No time 	 	3
8 	Marcus Ericsson 	 	CT05 	 	No time 	 	1
===Day 2, 29 January===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-29	 	1:24.165	 	43
2 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	F14 T 	 	1:24.812	+ 0.647 s 	47
3 	Valtteri Bottas 	 	FW36 	 	1:25.344	+ 1.179 s 	35
4 	Nico Rosberg 	 	F1 W05	 	1:25.588	+ 1.423 s 	97
5 	Sergio Pérez 	 	VJM07 	 	1:28.376	+ 4.211 s 	37
6 	Esteban Gutiérrez	 	C33 	 	1:33.270	+ 9.105 s 	53
7 	Marcus Ericsson 	 	CT05 	 	1:37.975	+ 13.810 s	11
8 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	RB10 	 	1:38.320	+ 14.155 s	8
===Day 3, 30 January===
Source: 
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Kevin Magnussen 	 	MP4-29	 	1:23.276	 	52
2 	Felipe Massa 	 	FW36 	 	1:23.700	+ 0.424 s	47
3 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W05	 	1:23.952	+ 0.676 s	62
4 	Jenson Button 	 	MP4-29	 	1:25.030	+ 1.754 s	40
5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	F14 T 	 	1:25.495	+ 2.219 s	58
6 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	VJM07 	 	1:26.096	+ 2.820 s	17
7 	Jean-Éric Vergne	 	STR9 	 	1:29.915	+ 6.639 s	30
8 	Adrian Sutil 	 	C33 	 	1:30.161	+ 6.885 s	34
9 	Robin Frijns 	 	CT05 	 	No time 	 	10
10 	Max Chilton 	 	MR03 	 	No time 	 	5
11 	Daniel Ricciardo	 	RB10 	 	No time 	 	3
===Day 4, 31 January===
Pos.	Driver 	Team	Car 	Tyres	Time 	Gap 	Laps
1 	Felipe Massa 	 	FW36 	 	1:28.229	 	86
2 	Fernando Alonso 	 	F14 T 	 	1:29.145	+ 0.916 s 	115
3 	Daniel Juncadella	 	VJM07 	 	1:29.457	+ 1.228 s 	81
4 	Kevin Magnussen 	 	MP4-29	 	1:30.806	+ 2.577 s 	110
5 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	F1 W05	 	1:30.822	+ 2.593 s 	41
6 	Jules Bianchi 	 	MR03 	 	1:32.222	+ 3.993 s 	25
7 	Adrian Sutil 	 	C33 	 	1:36.571	+ 8.342 s 	69
8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	F1 W05	 	1:36.951	+ 8.772 s 	91
9 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	CT05 	 	1:43.193	+ 14.964 s	54
10 	Daniil Kvyat 	 	STR9 	 	1:44.016	+ 15.787 s	9
11 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	RB10 	 	1:45.374	+ 17.145 s	7
==Notes==
Category:Pre-season testing
Category:2014 Formula One Season