Day two of Testing

Nothing much to report from the second day of testing in Jerez. Its all very much speculation in the paddock at the moment with nobody sure exactly what fuel loads and test runs people are running you can't really get that much out of the results at the end of the day.

A little tid bit of information for you though, in the first test of the 2011 season the fastest time over the 4 days was set by Rubens Barrichello with a 1:19.8 for Williams. Michael Schumacher set the fastest time in yesterday's session with a 1:18.5 in his 2011 spec Mercedes and fastest of the 2012 spec cars was the RB8 in the hands of Mark Webber with a 1:19.1 already 7tenths quicker than the top time from last year. The Ferrari and Mclaren are still down in the 1:20s with the Maranello squad insisting on twitter they don't have their eye on the stop watch but more on their telemetry screens.

Today sees the driver change with Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel getting their first go in the 2012 cars. Although this sounds tantalising, something tells me that nothing much will happen on track between them as they get used to their new machines and run through the test programmes set for them by the team.

Jenson Button at the helm of the MP4/27 in the second day of testing at Jerez