Driver Pastor Maldonado
Chassis / engine FW34-01 / RS27-5281/1
Location Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona 4.655km
Objectives Set-up work and long runs
Weather Dry and sunny all day
Ambient & track temps 21ºC / 27ºC

Day three of the Williams F1 teams Barcelona Test would see Pastor Maldonado make his first appearance after having see Bruno Senna and Valtteri Bottas complete the first two days. With the start of the day Pastor would come out for his first run completing six
laps with times ranging from 1m:36s to 1m:29s. He would pit and after a twenty minute stop in his pit he would return for another short run of five laps. This time his times were in the 1m:25s, pitting after having completed a total of sixteen laps. Pastor's runs in the morning were quite short been only five laps. He would complete a further three runs and it would be on his third that he would set his quickest time with a 1m:24.537.

This would see Pastor second behind Schumacher who had set a 1m:24.176. Pastor's time was set on the soft tyre and he would pit after thirty seven laps. With other drivers improving Pastor would drop down to third. As the day progressed Pastor would complete
a series of short runs, around three laps each, and it would be in his final run before the lunch break that he would set his quickest time, a 1m:22.391, that would see him fastest by 0.993 seconds. Pastor was on the super soft tyre for this quick time. At the lunch break Pastor had completed fifty two laps.

After the lunch break Pastor would complete two six laps runs with times in the 1m:28s. While Pastor was completing shorter runs other teams were involved in longer race simulation type runs. Pastor would also complete practice starts at the end of the pit
lane. His runs were conducted on the soft tyre. Pastor's next run would see him in the 1m:31s. He would complete thirteen laps prior to pitting. As the last hour of the day commenced Pastor was still in his pit. But he would come back out again setting times
in the 1m:31s, completing around a dozen laps prior to pitting. This would see Pastor's day come to an end with him setting the fastest time.

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: It has been a very pleasing day with Pastor successfully completing his whole run plan, covering 106 trouble-free laps. We started with some aerodynamic correlation runs, followed by race weekend preparation and set-up
optimisation. In the background, we also ran some bodywork cooling sweeps throughout the day.

Pastor Maldonado: It was a good day today, as we completed all of our planned programme with no issues. We have put more mileage on the car which is great for everyone here and back at the factory as we now have a lot more data to analyse. The car is progressing well and I feel everything is going in the right direction.

The Williams F1 Team will be back on track tomorrow, Friday 24 February, with Pastor Maldonado continuing in the FW34 for the final day of the test.

DRIVER      	 TEAM 		  	TIME       BEST / TOTAL
						   LAPS
1 P Maldonado 	 Williams F1 Team 	1:22.391   49 / 106
2 M Schumacher 	 Mercedes 		1:23.384   46 / 127
3 K Kobayashi 	 Sauber F1 Team 	1:23.582   45 / 99
4 J Button 	 McLaren Mercedes 	1:23.918   36 / 114
5 J E Vergne 	 Toro Rosso 		1:24.433   28 / 78
6 M Webber 	 Red Bull Racing 	1:24.771   81 / 96
7 F Massa 	 Ferrari 		1:24.771   24 / 84
8 P Di Resta 	 Sahara Force India 	1:25.646   22 / 83
9 T Glock 	 Marussia 		1:26.173   47 / 108
10 V Petrov 	 Caterham F1 Team 	1:26.448   65 / 70