(GMM) F1's testing contingent is busy scratching its head at Barcelona.
Although the newly surfaced Circuit de Catalunya is now offering more grip than before, it is also displaying an utterly unique characteristic.
With a fresh set of rubber bolted to the F1 car, according to Toyota's Jarno Trulli, the expected lap time just isn't there.
''We're waiting five or six laps to go faster,'' he told reporters, ''and then we're faster still when the tyres are even older.
''It's difficult to understand (why).''
The Italian also confirmed that circuit organisers had ground away bumps at turns 3 and 4, but particularly the troublesome Turn 1.
Written: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:57:10
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