Driver Pastor Maldonado
Chassis / engine FW34-01 / RS27-5326/1
Location Jerez de la Frontera 4.428km
Objectives Set-up work and long runs
Weather Dry and sunny
Ambient & track temps 12ºC / 15ºC

On the second day of the Williams F1 teams Jerez test Pastor Maldonado would be back behind the wheel. It was a sunny but cool day as Pastor took to the track and his first flying lap would set a 1m:28.127. After completing four laps Pastor would return to his
pit. After a short break Pastor would come back out again running on the medium Pirelli tyres. On his next lap Pastor would set a 1m:26.063, with the quickest time at this point was Webber with a 1m:20.641. AS Pastor completed further laps his times would  improve with a 1m:25.930. He would continue to set a 1m:24.887 prior to pitting.

He would quickly return to the track seeing him set a 1m:22.538 followed by a 1m:22.184 after completing twenty two laps. Webber had lowered the quickest time with a 1m:19.682 after the opening couple of hours. Pastor would complete further laps, thirty one  after the first two hours, prior to pitting again. He would return to the track and would again improve his time with a 1m:21.529 after thirty seven laps. After their problems on the first day the team was working  well as they started to learn more about the  new FW34. After this run Pastor would again pit. In his last two runs Pastor's times were mainly in the mid 1m:22s. Webber would improve the quickest time with a 1m:19.184.

Pastor would complete another series of five or six lap runs during this time he would improve his time with a 1m:21.197.  Schumacher, in last years car, was now fastest with a 1m:18.561, while Pastor had completed sixty one laps by early afternoon. The  Williams team would confirm that they were doing some mechanical and aero setup work. Pastor would remain in his pit for a considerable amount of time.

It was later confirmed that this was simply to check the new car prior to Pastor returning to the track later in the afternoon. He would return to the track completing ninety seven laps. His times in the afternoon runs were in the 1m:22s.

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: We successfully completed the majority of our planned test programme today with Pastor  covering 97 laps. We performed a mixture of mechanical and aerodynamic set-up tests, in addition to continued engine and KERS
systems checks. Bruno will have his first outing in the car tomorrow as we switch driver for the final two days of the test.

Pastor Maldonado: We ran through our test programme and covered everything we needed to today. We did some long runs this afternoon and the car is looking good. We will now spend some time analysing all of the data we have gathered. It’s good to put more mileage on the FW34 and we now aim to continue that throughout the next two days.

The Williams F1 Team will be back on track tomorrow, Thursday 9 February, with Bruno Senna driving the FW34 for the third day of the test.

DRIVER      	 TEAM 		  	TIME       BEST / TOTAL
						   LAPS
1 M Schumacher 	 Mercedes 		1:18.561   32 / 132
2 M Webber 	 Red Bull Racing 	1:19.184   31 / 97
3 D Ricciardo 	 Toro Rosso 		1:19.587   34 / 100
4 J Bianchi 	 Sahara Force India 	1:20.221   37 / 46
5 K Raikkonen 	 Lotus F1 Team 		1:20.239   14 / 117
6 P Di Resta 	 Sahara Force India 	1:20.272   20 / 69
7 F Massa 	 Ferrari 		1:20.454   86 / 95
8 J Button 	 McLaren Mercedes 	1:20.688   20 / 85
9 S Perez 	 Sauber F1 Team 	1:20.711   55 / 68
10 P Maldonado 	 Williams F1 Team 	1:21.197   40 / 97
11 H Kovalainen  Caterham F1 Team 	1:21.518   42 / 139
12 P De la Rosa  HRT F1 Team 		1:22.128   57 / 64