HRT reveal F111, Schu flies, Dennis in trouble

UPDATE Michael Schumacher completed the majority of the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team's program in Barcelona today on the third day of this week's test, with Nico Rosberg taking over for the final hour of the day.

Michael Schumacher

– The team added further new aerodynamic parts to its upgrade package today
– Michael's program focused on aerodynamic evaluations and qualifying exercises
– He set the fastest time of the day, 1:21.268, during a qualifying simulation
– Nico took over the car at 16:00hrs to experience the new developments on a dry track, ahead of expected rain tomorrow.

The team plan for both Michael and Nico to drive during the fourth and final day of the test tomorrow.

Michael Schumacher: "We have been developing the car step-by-step this week with new parts arriving each day. So our focus today has been on understanding how to get the best from the car now that it is pretty much in its final configuration for the first time. The car has behaved as we expected and it's been a very productive day. We completed our program and I should also be able to get some experience of the expected wet conditions tomorrow."

Nico Rosberg: "First of all, it's super that I was able to do some laps today, given the forecast for tomorrow. It was a good few laps, and obviously now that we have most of the developments for the car, it was handling much better and I had a good feeling. So I'm pretty pleased with the situation and would like to thank the whole team for getting everything onto the car that we wanted. We've made good progress over the winter."

Pos	Driver	Team/Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m21.249s	+0.000s	67
2.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m21.614s	+0.365s	141
3.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m21.788s	+0.539s	22
4.	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1m22.073s	+0.824s	67
5.	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m22.233s	+0.984s	89
6.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m22.315s	+1.066s	98
7.	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m22.675s	+1.426s	72
8.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m22.933s	+1.684s	64
9.	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1m23.437s	+2.188s	138
10.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m23.653s	+2.404s	42
11.	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1m23.921s	+2.672s	26
12.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m24.108s	+2.859s	11
13.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m25.837s	+4.588s	57
14.	Jerome D'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m27.375s	+6.126s	46

The new HRT F111

03/11/11 (GMM) HRT on Friday became the last formula one team to reveal its 2011 car.

But the F111, designed in-house by the Spanish team after the collapse of a technical deal with Toyota, may not actually run at the Circuit de Catalunya on Friday due to delayed spare parts.

That would mean Hispania, featuring drivers Tonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan this season, will have just one full day of testing before the season opener in Australia in two weeks.

The car, shown to the world's media in the Barcelona pitlane, does look different to the sluggish 2010 contender, and features an all-new white and red livery.

On track, Michael Schumacher was impressing at the wheel of Mercedes' fully-updated Mercedes car, beating Sergio Perez's Thursday best time despite using only the soft Pirellis — not the super-softs used by Sauber' Mexican rookie.

"We've definitely moved forward," team boss Ross Brawn told the BBC. "Whether it's enough we won't know until Melbourne."

Elsewhere in the F1 world, McLaren's executive chairman Ron Dennis was banned from driving on the roads for six months following four recent traffic offences in the UK.

The Surrey Advertiser newspaper said the 63-year-old's latest offence involved running a red light.