Formula 1: 6 Things We Learned from Jerez Testing and Combined Lap Times

The first official F1 test was held at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain from the seventh to 10th of February.  The four-day event was the first chance for the teams and drivers to get to grips with the cars they'd spent months developing.

There were no major changes to the technical regulations over the winter.  "Blown diffusers" were banned, the exhaust exits were moved and the maximum height of the car's nose was reduced, but overall the 2012 cars are not too different from those which we saw at the end of 2011.

That said, the teams and drivers were still arriving with untested lumps of carbon fibre, rubber and metal.

Technology is sufficiently advanced that every part will already have been thoroughly te...

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