Fernando Alonso will drive the Ferrari F10 on the first two days of the four day session, before handing over the reins to Felipe Massa. Weather however may not be favorable.

After a lackluster 2009 season, it’s easy to get carried away in thinking that Ferrari are back on top. Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso occupied the top of the time sheets at the first pre-season testing event in Valencia, Spain. The scuderia’s cars were the only single seater’s lapping in the 1 minute 11 second range with the rest of the drivers failing to break the 1 minute 12 second barrier. A great start to the F1 pre-season, but team principal Stefano Domenicali may now face the toughest job in preparing the team for the 2010 championship, and that is keeping the prancing horse’s feet firmly on the ground.

Compiled video of all three days of testing from Valencia, Spain. Testing in Valencia is over. Teams now prepare to head to Jerez Spain to conduct the next of the schedule pre-season test events.

For all intents and purposes, the top of the time sheets in each of the sessions was clearly dominated by Ferrari.

With only a few laps under his belt in a Ferrari, former two time F1 Champion Fernando Alonso has not only clocked the fastest time of this morning’s session, but fastest of all thus far with a 1.11.470.

New regulations for the 2010 Formula One season have been approved by the F1 commission. The two new regulations are concerning tires and the points system.

Day two of testing in Cheste, Spain sees Ferrari and Felipe leading the way again after day 2. After a series of long runs and short stints with both heavy and lighter fuel loads and scrubbed tires, the Brazilian set the fastest time of the day during the morning session with a time of 1m11.722s.

In December of 2009, (though talks must have started earlier) Ferrari hired Giuseppe Azzollini who previously worked for Totyota F1 as senior CFD engineer. With Toyota departing from F1, Ferrari acquired the services of Giuseppe.

Ferrari’s confidence in the F10 grows after Felipe Massa ends day 1 of pre-season testing in P1 Valencia topping the time sheets. After the morning session, Felipe Massa set the benchmark time to beat with a time of 1:13.088s just before lunch completing a total of 32 laps. As the test went on into the afternoon, times subsequently began to drop.