Objectives
• Aero evaluations, set-up work and tyre testing.
Pastor Maldonado:
"I was running a
different programme to Valtteri today, concentrating on mechanical work
and tyres. We lost a lot of track time in the first session due to the
weather, so we had a busy afternoon. I was also able to do a longer run
towards the end as the track dried but we still have work to do to
improve the performance for tomorrow."
Valtteri Bottas: "Conditions were
not ideal today, especially as we were trying to test new parts on the
car. It’s the same for all teams, but I really feel for the fans as they
didn’t see much running. We managed to test with both the prime and
option tyres in the second practice session, so we’ll look at the data
tonight and assess where we need to improve for the final practice
session and qualifying tomorrow."
Mike Coughlan, Technical
Director:
"It was raining this morning so
we could only run on full wet tyres in FP1 to get a feel for the balance
of the car. Our test programme was therefore shifted to FP2, so we
didn't run the prototype tyre as we needed time to get through all the
changes we had planned. Pastor was doing mechanical tests, whilst
Valtteri did aero evaluations with two different packages we have here.
We gathered all the information we needed so now we will analyse the
data to decide which direction to go. Both cars will run with the same
configuration tomorrow."
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