Williams ends Barcelona test on positive note

By Andrew Hooper
February 21 2008

 
 Barcelona Test 21:02:2008 Day Three
 

Under improved conditions the AT&T Williams team would complete their third day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya. All three drivers, Nico Rosberg, Nico Hulkenberg and Kazuki Nakajima would carry out the driving duties. The track would dry out during the morning allowing the drivers to take advantage of the improve conditions to make some progress with their test schedule.

RosbergKazuki Nakajima would set the fastest time of the day when he was to take over the FW30 of test driver Nico Hulkenberg late in the afternoon. Kazuki's time would be set right at the end of a three-lap run near the end of the session. Nico Rosberg would finish in a trouble free fifth after completing one hundred and nine laps.

This marked the end of the teams three day test but the team will resume testing next week in their lead up to the opening race in Australia.

TEAM QUOTES
Sam Michael, Technical Director:
"This week we continued our winter test programme at the Barcelona circuit. Although the first two days were wet, the final day was predominantly dry and that allowed us to work on chassis set-up. All three drivers were on hand and the mileage they covered was important for us to get race signoff before the Australian Grand Prix."

Nico Rosberg:
"We’ve had plenty of running in the wet this week and we looked pretty good, which was positive. It wasn’t that easy to drive in the conditions, it’s hard to keep the tyres in the working window, especially without traction control, so you’re always quite on the limit. The last day was dry and so we managed to cover a lot of laps with no problems at all. Over the three days, we got some important reliability issues sorted out. We seem to be progressing well with the new car and I am happy with the improvements we’re making."

Kazuki Nakajima:
"Initially it was a bit of a difficult test because of the weather but it was good for me to get some experience in wet conditions. The car is feeling good, but we couldn’t do as much work with it as we wanted to because of the bad weather. It was still a good week for us though overall.”

 
Pos Driver 	    Team 	        Best Time  Laps
1   K Nakajima 	    AT&T Williams 	1:22.153   32
2   H Kovalainen    McLaren Mercedes 	1:22.185   64
3   P de la Rosa    McLaren Mercedes 	1:22.208   92
4   F Massa 	    Ferrari 		1:22.213   96
5   N Rosberg 	    AT&T Williams 	1:22.248   109
6   M Webber 	    Red Bull Racing 	1:22.477   82
7   D Coulthard     Red Bull Racing 	1:22.499   104
8   L Badoer 	    Ferrari 		1:22.535   102
9   F Alonso 	    Renault F1 		1:22.657   61
10  T Glock 	    Toyota 		1:22.901   110
11  N Piquet 	    Renault F1 		1:23.286   105
12  K Kobayashi     Toyota 		1:24.132   56
13  N Hulkenberg    AT&T Williams 	1:24.222   54

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

TEAM SUMMARY
Driver 		Total  	Total  	Best  	 Best 
		Days   	KMS    	Time  	 Position  
N Rosberg 	3 	1,299 	1:22.348 1st
K Nakajima 	3 	749 	1:22.153 1st
N Hulkenberg 	2 	498 	1:24.222 10th
 

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