JEREZ TEST DAY TWO
FRIDAY 11 FEBRUARY, 2011
Driver Pastor Maldonado
Chassis / engine FW33-01 / CA320
Location Jerez de la Frontera 4.428km
Objectives Setup work and long runs
Weather Dry and sunny all day
Ambient & track temps 20ºC / 25ºC

On the second day of the AT&T Williams teams Jerez test Pastor Maldonado would continue behind the wheel and would take to the track to complete his installation lap. His first runs would see him set a 1m:24.227 but he would improve with a 1m:22.887. This was a good start from Pastor after the difficulties he had on the first day of testing.

Pastor would pit after completing a six-lap run which saw his times mostly between 1m22.5s and 1m23.0s. In his first forty five minutes of running Pastor would be third having completed nine laps. At this time Webber was fastest with a 1m:21.613. Pastor would drop to fourth with a 1m:22.591.

Pastor would return to the track for a four-lap run, finishing some way off his earlier pace with his time in the mid 1m25s. Pastor would drop to seventh. He would return to his pit having dropped to eighth after completing thirty one laps. Fastest was Schumacher with a 1m:20.352 followed by Massa and Webber. By Midday Alguersuari had move dup the order to be third with a 1m:21.506s.

By 1:30PM Pastor was still in his pit. It was later confirmed that the team had a KERS battery warning requiring the team to do a full battery strip to check that the system was all OK. Pastor would return after some four hours but it would all go wrong with Pastor having a big crash at Turn four hitting the wall damaging his front wing, rear wing, and left suspension. The car had broken to the right and went in front end first. His car was looking very second hand as Pastor got out of his car moving behind the barriers. That would be the end of Pastor's day.

Now it would be down to the Williams mechanics to repair the FW33 in preparation for the third day of testing.

Sam Michael, Technical Director: Today started well, then late morning we had a warning message on the KERS battery. That required us to strip the battery to check if there was a problem or if we just had a sensor error - fortunately it was the latter. It cost us 3½ hours though. Despite that, we made some really useful progress understanding the car's aero characteristics with the setup changes we ran in the morning. We started this afternoon with a long run but went off at T4, the high speed left hander.

Pastor Maldonado: Yesterday we were aero testing so weren’t focusing too much on out right lap times. This morning we covered good mileage testing different things on the car. After a bit of time in the garage so the team could check the KERS, I went back out later this afternoon. We were just starting a race simulation when a couple of laps in I lost the car at T4 which put me out for the rest of the day.

AT&T Williams will be back on track tomorrow, Saturday 12 February, with Rubens Barrichello driving for the third day of the test.

DRIVER      	 TEAM 		  	TIME       BEST / TOTAL
						   LAPS
1 M Schumacher   Mercedes GP 		1:20.352   25 / 112
2 F Massa 	 Ferrari 		1:20.413   33 / 116
3 J Button 	 McLaren Mercedes 	1:21.009   43 / 69
4 J Alguersuari  Toro Rosso 		1:21.214   31 / 72
5 M Webber 	 Red Bull Racing 	1:21.613   12 / 113
6 A Sutil 	 Force India F1 Team 	1:21.780   61 / 73
7 S Perez 	 Sauber F1 Team 	1:21.857   38 / 56
8 T Glock 	 Marussia Virgin Racing 1:22.208   54 / 57
9 V Petrov 	 Lotus Renault GP 	1:22.493   44 / 65
10 P Maldonado   AT&T Williams 		1:22.591   6 / 37
11 J Trulli 	 Team Lotus 		1:23.216   6 / 40