Rain on Day three of Williams Monza Test

By Andrew Hooper
August 31 2007

 Monza Test 30:08:2007 Day Three
 

The AT&T Williams teams third day of testing at the Monza circuit would be hampered by overnight showers and storms throughout the morning. This would see the team get very little track time prior to the afternoon.

With the sun coming out the team would finally get some running but it would be limited to just a few hours. As such the team would not get through their test schedule, resulting in a decision to stay a further day.

Nico would finish the day seventh fastest with a best lap time of 1m:24.983. He would complete just forty five laps.

Williams F1 Test Team Manager Dickie Stanford commented: "After a very heavy downpour which lasted for about two and a half hours this morning, the weather cleared at lunchtime leaving blue skies and temperatures reaching 25°C. During the limited window of running the weather afforded us, we continued with our set-up work prior to the race here with Nico in the car. Due to the poor weather conditions, we’ll be staying another day with the majority of the other teams in order to finish our programme.".
  
Pos Driver 	    Team 	       	Best Time Laps
1   F Alonso 	    McLaren Mercedes 	1:23.490  44 / 51
2   R Kubica 	    BMW Sauber 		1:24.413  43 / 48
3   D Coulthard     Red Bull Racing 	1:24.453  43 / 52
4   F Massa 	    Ferrari 		1:24.525  31 / 49
5   V Liuzzi 	    Toro Rosso 		1:24.768  36 / 40
6   J Button 	    Honda F1 		1:24.918  45 / 61
7   N Rosberg 	    AT&T Williams 	1:24.983  44 / 45
8   G Fisichella    Renault F1 		1:25.069  62 / 72
9   R Schumacher    Toyota 		1:26.175  37 / 44
10  S Yamamoto      Spyker 		1:26.384  59 / 72
11  A Davidson      Super Aguri 	1:35.106  10 / 47

* 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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