Thunder and lightening put a pall on most meaningful testing at Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday, but the forecast for the outskirts of Barcelona on Wednesday looks better.
The risk of showers in the morning is still very high, but F1’s eleven formula one teams should enjoy a clear afternoon — threatened only by the sporadic risk of light rain.
On Thursday – now the final day of the test following an inter-team agreement to extend it – the weather should be even finer, but Spyker (and possibly also Super Aguri) have apparently decided to return to their base at the close of the original three day session.
Despite Tuesday’s appalling conditions, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen continued running unperturbed, while his McLaren rival Fernando Alonso did no more than a single untimed installation lap.
To placate the Spaniard’s countrymen, who whistled with discontent when Alonso returned to the shelter of his garage without setting a time, McLaren mechanics – with little else to do – showed the opposite grandstands a pit board which read ‘Alonso P1 – Kimi slow’.
