Good Morning once again fellow race fans. Today starts the second day of the second testing session in Bahrain. The boys from Infiniti RedBull haven't been doing all the great lately, so will today be the day that they finally figure everything out? We will see. As usual I will start things off with the lap times so far.
| 1 | Perez | Force India | 1m35.570s |
| 2 | Alonso | Ferrari | 1m35.634s +0.064 |
| 3 | Button | McLaren | 1m36.901s +1.331 |
| 4 | Bianchi | Marussia | 1m38.198s +2.628 |
| 5 | Hamilton | Mercedes | 1m39.041s +3.471 |
| 6 | Massa | Williams | 1m39.323s +3.753 |
| 7 | Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1m39.756s +4.186 |
| 8 | Gutierrez | Sauber | 1m40.428s +4.858 |
| 9 | Ricciardo | Red Bull | 1m40.867s +5.297 |
| 10 | Maldonado | Lotus | 1m41.613s +6.043 |
| 11 | Ericsson | Caterham | 1m42.516s +6.946 |
Update 1: As of this moment only Gutierrez, Bianchi, Ericsson and Maldonado are on track. That's good for the boys at Lotus that had to call the session early yesterday.
Update 2: Mercedes F1 Twitter just announced that Hamilton will be back on track soon.
Update 3:Red Flag, just as I spoke about Lotus, Maldonado comes to a halt at the esses's in turn 4. Supposedly off the track and out of the car. Not a good start.
Update 4: The crane has picked up the Lotus and is now making its way back to the pits, according to the BBC, the Lotus had failed and just rolled off the track, no shunt for Maldonado.
Update 5: And the Green Flag drops and Ricciardo is the first one back out, they need consistent laps from here on out.
Update 6: With Ricciardo, now out on track is Hamilton, Alonso, Perez, Vergne, Gutierrez, and Massa
Update 7: Gutierrrez dips the Sauber finally into the 1:39's today.
Update 8: An interesting tidbit of information has come out of a Twitter AMA with Nico Rosberg, someone asked "How are drivers protected from the risk of a potential electric shock when you are inside the cockpit?" Nico replied with this, "no risk because rubber between the ground +the car. but when jump out of the car i am not allowed to touch car+ ground at same time " That seems mighty dangerous to be asking the drivers who might have a concussion or possibly trying to get out of the way of a fire to be doing.
Update 9: The E22 Lotus came back to the pits and caused a Red Flag due to a bit of flame show according to their Twitter.
Update 10: Ricciardo doing well and not catching on fire, he was neck and neck with Perez both doing a 1:41 lap time, not first, but anytime that is spent not on fire has got to go up in the win column for Infiniti RedBull.
Update 11: William's just announced that Massa would be heading back out on track to do a few race simulations with the car.
Update 12: After a fairly long stint, at least for RedBull, Ricciardo bring the RB10 back to the pits.
Update 13: Alright ladies and gentlemen, I will be back in a few minutes, I have to head off to my paying job. BOOOO, I would rather do this and then take a nap. Be right back
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Formula 1:Day 2 Testing Bahrain Session 2 Live