Formula 1 Testing: Times from Day 2 at Barcelona

Wednesday saw Day 2 of the second preseason test at the Circuit de Catalunya, near Barcelona. After identifying a problem with their chassis, Lotus elected to abandon the test late on Tuesday.  Plans to fly out a different car were scrapped to allow the team more time to rectify the issue.  Technical director James Allison said in a statement on the team website: Before we were due to fly chassis E20-01 out to Barcelona in replacement of chassis E20-02—damaged this morning—we ran a series of simulations at the factory based on the data provided by our brief running on track today.  As a result, we were able to identify an area which requires some additional work.  It will be more productive for us to...

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