- Lotus has been the fastest in three days of four, Red Bull, wins the remaining days. - Mercedes is, again, the only team in surpassing the 2,000 kilometers during the testing. - McLaren is the slowest within the regulars beside, a misled from Alfonso took him to the hospital on Sunday. There are 250 days left before the Grand Prix Mexico and Formula 1® has concluded the second pre-season test, this time at the Montmeló circuit in Barcelona. Barcelona. At the same time everything runs in time at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez which is being renewed for the XVII edition race; while the world’s fastest cars keep trying to reach season 2015 in Spain, concluding 8 of the 12 days programmed on the season. The 4,655 meters Spanish circuit is one of the favorites for its warm weather, and its layout has any kind of curves from the slowest to the fastest, which enables to achieve a reasonable development base point in the 20 races for this year in the whole campaign. Tests began on Thursday, February 19, and the 9 F1 teams were signed up by then, although Sahara Force India sent its VJM-07 from last year, since the model to be used this year, the VJM-08 is being developed still. Lotus team has a new Mercedes’ engine in 2015, and was the fastest with his Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado leading this session, scoring 1m25.011s on his best 89 lap to the layout in the Spanish. For Mercedes the champion Lewis Hamilton got sick after some laps, his teammate Nico Rosberg from a pinched nerve and the tester, Pascal Wehrlein –who usually races for DTM– was called from Force India, where he was achieving experience and mileage, and so the day finished for the winners, while the Mexican Sergio Pérez was driving for Force India and finished the day for Silvers with the fourth best time during a tyre testing in 2015. And McLaren-Honda kept his bad luck streak, since Jenson Button barely reached 21 laps and was overtaken by all the regulars, except by Wehrlein and Susie Wolff, Williams tester, who by the way crashed the FW37 against Felipe Nasr’s Sauber C34. The second day had the Daniel Ricciardo’s RB11 (1m24.574s) as leader, who was pleased to reach 143 laps. Sergio tested the VJM-07 again, and finished fourth in the day, but improved his time almost 2 seconds over the one he got on Thursday. Fernando Alonso showed his competitiveness finishing a few seconds from Ricciardo, it is the first time that McLaren MP4-30 got closer to its rivals in the whole pre-season. Lotus used the champion Jolyon Palmer ‘s GP2, getting better time than many other carholders. On the third day, Saturday, February 21, Pastor, with extra soft tyres, Lotus E23 scoring 1’24.348s and giving over 100 laps in the day. The closest was the novice Max Verstappen in its Toro Rosso STR10, who achieved 129 laps in the day. Tests in Montmeló and Lotus came to an end on Sunday, 22 Montmeló y Lotus, now with the French Romain Grosjean in the track, setting the best time of the day and of the 4 day session, scoring a time of 1’24.067”, and lapping 111 times the track in Barcelona. It was not an easy day, since Fernando Alonso mislead at the end of the morning session and hit against the walls, so he had to be taken in helicopter to a local hospital, he spend the night in observation without something of consideration although. As in Jerez, Mercedes overtook the 2,000 kilometers with a total of 446 laps, and its best time was gotten by Nico Rosberg’s W06 , on Pirelli medium, finishing 3 tenths from Grosjean. Something that must have their rivals worried, since they haven’t used the softer components and they finish scoring the remaining times. The final pre-season testing will take place in Montmeló again from February 26 to March 1. Photos: Courtesy teams.