Nelson Piquet Jr. : “It was a shame I didn’t manage to do more running today, but these things can happen during testing. This is a fun circuit, and the conditions are very different to anything we have encountered so far during the testing programme. That means this will be an important, interesting session for us and all the teams. ”
The overall feeling was logically one of frustration for the French team, but today’s delays should not hinder the programme in the coming days, as Chief Test Engineer Christian Silk explains: “Unfortunately, Nelson didn’t manage to do much running today after we experienced some problems. Even so, we managed to get a decent baseline set-up for the car, and the balance is now good enough to continue our planned programme tomorrow with Heikki. ”
DRIVER TEAM BEST LAPS
1 KUBICA BMW 1’36.187 92
2 RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1’36.309 54
3 WURZ Williams 1’36.612 89
4 BARRICHELLO Honda 1’36.826 82
5 DE LA ROSA McLaren 1’37.106 60
6 MONTAGNY Toyota 1’37.267 73
7 SATO Super Aguri 1’37.389 72
8 COULTHARD Red Bull Racing 1’37.609 83
9 PIQUET Renault 1’38.199 32
10 SPEED Toro Rosso 1’38.503 69
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