Jerez Test: 10 Feb - Williams returns to testing


Nico Hulkenberg

By Andrew Hooper
February 11 2009

The AT&T Williams team would return to testing at the Jerez circuit with Nico Hulkenberg behind the wheel. This would be the first day of a four day test as the team continued their preparations of the FW31. Nico would finish the second fastest of the 2009 cars being less than three tenths of a second behind the new RB5. The team would come away with a lot of useful data after the days testing.

 
 Jerez Test 10:02:2009 Day One
 

The AT&T Williams team would return to testing, this time at the Jerez circuit with Nico Hulkenberg behind the wheel. This would be the first day of a four day test as the Williams team continued their preparations of the 2009 FW31. Nico would spend the morning completing short number of laps.

HulkenbergThe days test programme would be affected by wet weather that would hit the track around midday. The rain would stop allowing the team to return to their test programme.

Nico would finish the second fastest of the 2009 cars being less than three tenths of a second behind the new Red Bull RB5. Nico was running with an inactive KERS unit in his car Nico would complete eighty two laps, a total of 362kms, with a best lap time of 1m:22.443. Kazuki Nakajima will take over testing duties tomorrow.

Williams F1 Technical Director Sam Michael commented: “Today Nico Hulkenberg worked on mapping, systems checks and set-ups on the FW31 in preparation for the first Grand Prix in Melbourne. Although there was some wet weather in the middle of the day, there was plenty of dry running and we have a lot of useful data to look at tonight.”
  
Pos Driver 	    Team 	        		Best Time Laps
1     S Buemi 	    Toro Rosso 		1:19.660    84 / 104
2     S Vettel 	    Red Bull 		1:22.177    49 / 61
3     N Hulkenberg 	    AT&T Williams 		1:22.443    78 / 82
4     H Kovalainen 	    McLaren Mercedes 	1:22.634    58 / 60
5     N Piquet 	    Renault 		1:23.313    27 / 35

* Please note that these times are recorded by the AT&T Williams team and
there may therefore be some discrepancies with alternative recording methods.
 

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