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Adrian goes well with shark fin

Adrian with shark fin
By Karl King
June 27 2008
Adrian hit the track with the newly shark-finned VJM01 on Thursday. This, along with new wheel covers, bargeboards, diffuser and inerter damper, helped Adrian post the 7th fastest time of the day, faster than Barrichello and the Red Bull owned cars of Coulthard and Bourdais. He was, however, more than 2 seconds slower than pace-setter Hamilton.

Adrian seemed content, "we did some good running and could do a lot of testing with the inerter damper, which was the main target of the day. It will take a little while to feel completely happy with it, but I definitely think there is potential there, we just need to understand how to get the most out of it as all day we had some problems with understeer that we just couldn't seem to get rid of.

"Aero-wise, I think we did a good step, the engine cover seems to work well and also the front wing. We've got more downforce now, so we need to put it all together, both mechanically and aerodynamically, and I think we will have a step forward for Silverstone next week."

There was one minor problem during the day - a brake disc failure which caused Adrian to go off track at turn 11, which Mike Gascoyne alludes to, "we again had a useful morning that confirmed some of the gains from the previous days' running. Unfortunately we had a brake disc failure that caused some down time in the garage, but overall we were able to get through our programme and evaluate the new parts, which seem to be working well."

The British GP is next weekend - hopefully the team's home location will give them luck!

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