2014 Jerez Test

2014 Jerez Test
The 1994 layout of the Jerez circuit
Date	January 28–31 2014
Circuit	Circuito de Jerez
Fastest driver	Jenson Button 1:24.165 (Day 2)

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.

Lotus did not attend the test, while Red Bull, Mercedes, Caterham, Williams and Force India all launched their cars on the morning of the first day. Marussia 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 Ferrari, who also completed over one-third of the days laps. Mercedes 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)
Caterham	CT05	Marcus Ericsson		Robin Frijns	Kamui Kobayashi
Ferrari	F14 T	Kimi Räikkönen		Fernando Alonso
Force India	VJM07	Sergio Pérez	Nico Hülkenberg		Daniel Juncadella
Lotus	Not attending
Marussia	MR03	Did not run		Max Chilton	Jules Bianchi
McLaren	MP4-29	Did not run	Jenson Button	Jenson Button Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen
Mercedes	F1 W05	Lewis Hamilton	Nico Rosberg	Lewis Hamilton	Nico Rosberg Lewis Hamilton
Red Bull	RB10	Sebastian Vettel		Daniel Ricciardo
Toro Rosso	STR9	Jean-Éric Vergne	Did not run	Jean-Éric Vergne	Daniil Kvyat
Williams	FW36	Valtteri Bottas		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 Ferrari for the first time since 2009 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 Mercedes 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.

Toro Rosso 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 Williams, 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 Force India 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 Sauber was the only other driver to set a lap-time, completing a total of seven laps throughout the day. Caterham were only able to complete a single lap with Marcus Ericsson behind the wheel. The reiging champions Red Bull encountered severe technical issues which restricted Sebastian Vettel to complete a mere three laps throughout the day. McLaren 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.

Best times

By day

Day	Driver	Team	Car	Tyres	Time
Jan 28	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:27.104
Jan 29	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-29	P	1:24.165
Jan 30	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-29	P	1:23.276
Jan 31	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:28.229

By driver

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Tyres	Time	Days	Laps
1	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	MP4-29	P	1:23.276	3, 4	162
2	Felipe Massa	Williams	FW36	P	1:23.700	3, 4	133
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W05 Hybrid	P	1:23.952	1, 3, 4	83
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-29	P	1:24.165	2, 3	83
5	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:24.812	1, 2	78
6	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	FW36	P	1:25.344	1, 2	41
7	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:25.495	3, 4	173
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W05 Hybrid	P	1:25.588	2, 4	188
9	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	VJM09	P	1:26.096	3	17
10	Sergio Pérez	Force India	VJM09	P	1:28.376	1, 2	47
11	Daniel Juncadella	Force India	VJM09	P	1:29.457	4	81
12	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso	STR9	P	1:29.915	1, 3	45
13	Adrian Sutil	Sauber	C33	P	1:30.161	3, 4	103
14	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	MR03	P	1:32.222	4	25
15	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber	C33	P	1:33.270	1, 2	60
16	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham	CT05	P	1:37.975	1, 2	12
17	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	RB10	P	1:38.320	1, 2	11
18	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham	CT05	P	1:43.193	4	54
19	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	STR9	P	1:44.016	4	9
20	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	RB10	P	1:45.374	3, 4	10
21	Robin Frijns	Caterham	CT05	P	No time	3	10
22	Max Chilton	Marussia	MR03	P	no time	3	5

Most laps by a driver: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes), 188.

Most laps by a team: Mercedes, 271

Most laps in a day: Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), 115 (day 4).

Times

Day One, 28 January

Source:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Tyres	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:27.104		31
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W05	P	1:27.820	+ 0.716 s	18
3	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:30.082	+ 2.978 s	6
4	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	P	1:33.161	+ 6.057 s	10
5	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	STR9	P	1:36.530	+ 9.426 s	15
6	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	C33	P	1:42.257	+ 15.153 s	7
7	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	RB10	P	No time		3
8	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	CT05	P	No time		1

Day 2, 29 January

Source:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Tyres	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-29	P	1:24.165		43
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:24.812	+ 0.647 s	47
3	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:25.344	+ 1.179 s	35
4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W05	P	1:25.588	+ 1.423 s	97
5	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	P	1:28.376	+ 4.211 s	37
6	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	C33	P	1:33.270	+ 9.105 s	53
7	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	CT05	P	1:37.975	+ 13.810 s	11
8	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	RB10	P	1:38.320	+ 14.155 s	8

Day 3, 30 January

Source:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Tyres	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-29	P	1:23.276		52
2	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:23.700	+ 0.424 s	47
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W05	P	1:23.952	+ 0.676 s	62
4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-29	P	1:25.030	+ 1.754 s	40
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:25.495	+ 2.219 s	58
6	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	P	1:26.096	+ 2.820 s	17
7	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	STR9	P	1:29.915	+ 6.639 s	30
8	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	C33	P	1:30.161	+ 6.885 s	34
9	Robin Frijns	Caterham-Renault	CT05	P	No time		10
10	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	MR03	P	No time		5
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	RB10	P	No time		3

Day 4, 31 January

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Tyres	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:28.229		86
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:29.145	+ 0.916 s	115
3	Daniel Juncadella	Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	P	1:29.457	+ 1.228 s	81
4	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-29	P	1:30.806	+ 2.577 s	110
5	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W05	P	1:30.822	+ 2.593 s	41
6	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Ferrari	MR03	P	1:32.222	+ 3.993 s	25
7	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	C33	P	1:36.571	+ 8.342 s	69
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W05	P	1:36.951	+ 8.772 s	91
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	CT05	P	1:43.193	+ 14.964 s	54
10	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	STR9	P	1:44.016	+ 15.787 s	9
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	RB10	P	1:45.374	+ 17.145 s	7

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