Australian GP: Williams Martini Friday Practice Review
By Williams Martini Racing
March 14 2014
Williams Martini Australian GP Friday
Practice Review
Objectives
• Tyre runs and aero evaluations
Felipe Massa:
"It was good to get a
strong number of laps on the track today and a chance to understand how
the car is behaving at this particular circuit. The car didn’t show any
problems which is very positive as reliability will be important this
weekend. There is a lot for us to work on tonight to improve the set-up
of the car, but on the whole this has been a positive day for us and we
head in to the weekend happy with how things have gone so far."
Valtteri Bottas: "It was a good day
for us today. We had no big issues with the car during the two sessions,
so the team has done a great job in putting the car together as it has
been fully stripped and analysed since the last test. We managed to
finish our programme, completing different tests on the set-up for both
short and long runs, so we have collected a lot of good data. We managed
to improve the balance of the car from FP1 to FP2 and whilst it’s
performing well, there is still work we can do to improve the car’s
performance for qualifying tomorrow."
Rod Nelson, Chief Test &
Support Engineer:
"We had a fairly
straightforward day and managed to complete our planned programme. We
went through some chassis and aero tests in the first session, and in
the second session we looked at both long run pace and the performance
of the soft tyre. We’ve been encouraged by the performance of the car in
both short and long runs, so it was a constructive day for us and we
have collected a lot of useful data to help in preparing the car for
this weekend."
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