Markus Winkelhock: “I Am Really Happy to be Back in The Car After so Long Away”
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May 17, 2007
With a different circuit configuration in use today at the Circuit de Castellet Paul Ricard, the Etihad Aldar Spyker Formula One Team’s focus switched to preparation for the Canadian Grand Prix. Working through an aero and tyre evaluation programme, test driver Markus Winkelhock completed 226km in the morning before race driver Christijan Albers took over in the afternoon. The Dutchman was however only able to put in just 16 laps before a minor mechanical problem curtailed the day’s running.
Adrian Sutil will drive take over for tomorrow’s final day of testing.
Team quotes
Dominic Harlow, chief race and test engineer
‘Markus Winkelhock began today`s programme with some very useful initial work on Montreal aero set-up. He completed 43 laps before Christijan took over the car for the afternoon. Unfortunately we had only begun his programme when a mechanical issue on the car resulted us having to end the session early. The cause is fully understood and it can be corrected immediately, but it is frustrating for Christijan and the team to lose out on some valuable test time. Still it is problems like this that we are here to uncover and fix as well as looking for performance improvements, and we expect to conclude the test tomorrow with another busy and productive day. ‘
