Felipe Massa in the Ferrari, finished top of the time-sheets at the end of the Formula One testing session at Hockenheim, followed amazingly by Jenson Button for the Honda team.
The three-day test session at the Hockenheimring in Germany ended on Thursday and Giancarlo Fisichella for the Force India team was in the driving seat replacing Adrian Sutil, who had spent the previous two days testing on track.
Fisichella suffered a fuel system failure in the morning session and then crashed heavily in the afternoon when he lost the rear through the stadium complex. He was unhurt but there was considerable damage to the Force India.
The Toyota team were trying out a new anvil wing engine cover at the Hockenheim test on Thursday as Jarno Trulli took over from team-mate Timo Glock.
The new engine cover was first seen by Red Bull Racing at the beginning of the season and has since been used by Renault, Force India and Toro Rosso. The McLaren team were also trying out there version at the test session.
Lewis Hamilton tested the engine cover on Tuesday in the McLaren and topped the time-sheets at the end of a day marred by rain showers.
On Wednesday, Hamilton was testing without the shark fin cover and ended the day six-tenths of a second faster than previous day.
The Honda team started the first day of testing with test driver Alex Wurz at the wheel in the gusty, wet conditions. The team will be running with a new package at the German Grand Prix with aerodynamic, engine and mechanical improvements.
Rubens Barrichello was in the driving seat for test day two, continuing the evaluation of the new package, however, he suffered problems under braking and and later a gearbox problem. On day three, Jenson Button took the Honda seat and ended the day in second place.
1 comment so far
1 Boy George // Jul 16, 2008 at 6:06 am
Does anybody know if Honda will be using the new “Shark Fin” engine cover design on their cars.
I heard a lot of teams have been testing it out.
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