BATHGATE’S PAUL di Resta immediately showed he will be a force in this year’s Formula One season when he finished today’s opening day of testing in Valencia fourth-fastest, just 0.692s behind world champ Sebastian Vettel, writes Jim McGill.
While times in testing are notoriously difficult to analyse — it’s often like comparing apples with oranges as different teams run different fuel loads and programmes — it’s worth highlighting Vettel was in his brand new 2011 Red Bull; di Resta was running a revised version of his 2010 Force India.