Monza Testing Day 1


By Press Release
August 24 2005

The Mild Seven Renault F1 Team completed a busy opening day of testing at Monza in preparation for next week’s Grand Prix, completing nearly 200 laps with the two cars. Fernando and Giancarlo ran without incident as they worked on set-up and tyre selection programmes. Fernando Alonso, R25-03, 101 laps Giancarlo Fisichella, R25-05, 93 laps

Chief Test Engineer Christian Silk commented:

“We had a very good day’s testing, with some encouraging results and excellent reliability. It is always difficult coming to Monza on the first day, as the drivers need some time to adapt to the low downforce configurations and the circuit is often quite dirty. However, Fernando and Giancarlo both settled in quickly and we were able to complete plenty of set-up work before beginning our evaluation of tyre compounds and constructions for the race weekend.”



DRIVER TEAM BEST LAPS

1 MOY McLaren 1'19.880 49

2 ALO Renault 1'20.860 101

3 FIS Renault 1'21.318 93

4 WUR McLaren 1'21.701 49

5 DLR McLaren 1'21.917 54

6 RAI McLaren 1'21.966 4

7 COU Red Bull 1'21.999 54

8 ZON Toyota 1'22.001 103

9 BAD Ferrari 1'22.300 128

10 MAS Ferrari 1'22.408 88

11 WEB Sauber 1'22.486 44

12 VIL Williams 1'22.906 96

13 ROS Williams 1'22.946 48

14 LIU Red Bull 1'23.181 35

15 MON Jordan 1'24.665 58

16 PAN Toyota 1'27.989 75

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