Barrichello quickest on day two at Barcelona (with pictures)

Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella has finished the team's second day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain, with the second fastest time of the nine-man field. The Italian recorded a 1m19.721s lap on 2009-spec slick tyres. His best lap on grooved tyres was still 1min 20.7s. The team's previous fastest lap round Barcelona this year, a 1min 22.233, was set by Giancarlo in February.

Timo Glock returned to action for Toyota today as the team continued its four-day test at Barcelona. Glock spent most of his time continuing his work on set-up for the Spanish Grand Prix, along with dampers and suspension. Late in the afternoon he tried out Bridgestone's new slick tyres which will be introduced into F1 in 2009. He finished the day with over 100 laps. 

Rubens Barrichello finished the second day of testing this week at Barcelona on top of the timesheets as he continued to evaluate slick Bridgestone tyres. His best lap of 1m18.928s was 0.8s ahead of Fisichella's Force India, also set on slick tyres. 

The Scuderia Toro Rosso team arrived at Circuit de Catalunya this week to complete the car's first proper day of testing with the team's race drivers. Earlier this month the team completed the car's shakedown at Vairano.

In Tuesday's test session at Circuit de Catalunya the Honda Formula 1 team is testing two little wings attached to the car's front wing. The BMW Sauber team is the only team running the same kind of wings in Formula 1, although Honda placed the same wings up-side-down compared to the wings they are using at BMW.

At the Bahrain Grand Prix Robert Kubica scored BMW Sauber F1's first pole position since the team took over the Sauber F1 team at the end of the 2005 Formula 1 season. Team boss Mario Theissen now admits he never expected such a strong performance in qualifying so early in the season.

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Former Formula One champion Fernando Alonso completed his laps on Tuesday morning at Circuit de Catalunya with a new engine cover. Red Bull Racing is using the type of engine cover since the start of the season and the Renault F1 team is now testing the aerodynamics of the engine cover to see if it is working for them as well.