Grosjean fastest 2012 car over four days at Jerez

The results from all four days at Jerez, collated, show Romain Grosjean is the fastest 2012 car.

Grosjean is the leader so far

Romain Grosjean set the fastest time when all times are collated from all the four days of the test session at Jerez. Grosjean was the fastest 2012 car, ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and the Red Bull duo of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Then it was Lewis Hamilton, while Felipe Massa and Jenson Button were well down the order, after running the first two days. The quickest time of all four days was set on Day Three, Nico Rosberg's time of 1.17.613. However, this was set in the 2011 Mercedes, so the fastest 2012 time was Grosjean's. Marussia weren't present at the test, while HRT used their 2011 car, but only for two days, meaning that Narain Karthikeyan didn't get a run in the car. Mercedes used their 2011 car, but only for three days. It is hard to draw conclusions from testing sessions as no-one knows what fuel simulations and setup configurations the team were using, but Red Bull look very quick, while Ferrari had a troubled few days, before Alonso was fastest on the final day. Lotus and Toro Rosso also seem to have made some improvements, as have Williams.

The times from the four days in full:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes*	1.17.613
2	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1.18.419
3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes*	1.18.561
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1.18.877
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull	1.19.184
6	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1.19.297
7	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1.19.464
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1.19.587
9	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	1.19.597
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus	1.19.670
11	Sergio Perez	Sauber	1.19.770
12	Paul di Resta	Force India	1.19.772
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1.19.834
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1.19.977
15	Bruno Senna	Williams	1.20.132
16	Jules Bianchi	Force India	1.20.221
17	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1.20.454
18	Jenson Button	McLaren	1.20.688
19	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1.21.197
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	1.21.518
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT*	1.22.128
22	Jarno Trulli	Caterham	1.22.198
23	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham	1.23.324

*2011 Car

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