Driver: Pastor Maldonado
Chassis / engine: FW34-03 / RS27- 5253/3
Location: Jerez de la Frontera 4.428km
Objectives: Aero evaluations and tyre testing
Weather: Dry and sunny all day
Maximum air & track temps: 16ºC / 28ºC

The second day of the Williams F1 teams test at the Jerez circuit would again see Pastor Maldonado carry out the driving duties. His day would see him complete a lap of 1m:29.939 but he would pit not reappearing until early in the afternoon in the days as a result of a clutch issue which took the team some time to sort out. Pastor's first run would see him complete eight laps with a best time of 1m:22.570. He next run was ten laps with a best time of 1m:21.787. At this time the quickest lap time had been set by Grosjean with a 1m:18.810, seeing Pastor 2.9 seconds off the Lotus drivers pace.

By two thirty Pastor had only complete twenty five laps. He would complete another run shortly after completing thirty five laps with a best time of 1m:21.076. The other laps ranged from high 1m:22s to low 1m:24s. Grosjean had improved his quickest time with a 1m:18.218. After a fifteen minute break Pastor would return for another ten lap run with Pastor setting a 1m:21.475 followed by laps from the 1m:22s to the 1m:24s. There was only one and a half hours remaining in the day. After changes Pastor would return to the track running on the medium tyre. Immediately he would set a new best time with a 1m:20.693. Pastor would complete a series of quicker laps followed by a slow lap and would pit after completing fifty two laps. As the day would down Pastor would complete another eight lap run with his lap times again following the pattern of a quicker lap followed by a slower one. He would pit having completed fifty nine laps.

By the end of the day Pastor would complete seventy one laps finishing ninth on the day.

Mike Coughlan, Technical Director: We had a clutch installation problem this morning which was a bit disappointing considering it was the same as we had been running last season. We quickly remedied this but it lost us time during our aero evaluations this morning. However, we will be able to recover this time over the next two days. This afternoon the focus was back on tyre work and we also made some subtle set-up changes which has given us a good direction for the new car. The new technical team is working well and we will now prepare to change drivers with Valtteri taking over for the final two days, something he is very much looking forward to.
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Pastor Maldonado: We did some good running this afternoon going through our planned tests but there is still a lot to do to understand the tyres even better. We have a lot of data to look through from today and there is a good atmosphere in the team. I know Andrew, my new Race Engineer, well as he’s been my Performance Engineer for the last two years, so it feels very natural to continue working together.

AS for the fact that the team is running last years car in an interview for Autosprt Pastor said: "We are confident with the new car. But we want to be even more confident.

"With the test we planned to do here, there is no better way to do it than with the other car because we have a lot of confidence in it, a lot of data to compare and we are going to be more clear [in understanding the tyres] with it.

"We are trying small parts in the car, different things and different settings to try and understand the components.

"It is very important to be here with the old car."

As for how the 2013 car will perform Pastor felt that it will be better.

Pastor added: "It's a step. We try to look at every single component, everything.

"But all the cars look very similar to last year because the rules are the same.

"It's a small improvement all round the car and we are quite confident that it will be very competitive this year, even better than the previous one."

The Williams F1 Team will be back on track tomorrow, Thursday 7 February, with Valtteri Bottas getting behind the wheel of the FW34 for the third day of the test.

DRIVER      	   TEAM 	        TIME      BEST / TOTAL 
						     LAPS
1 R Grosjean 	   Lotus F1 Team 	1:18.218  61 / 95
2 P Di Resta 	   Sahara Force India 	1:19.003  56 / 95
3 D Ricciardo 	   Toro Rosso 		1:19.134  25 / 83
4 M Webber 	   Red Bull Racing 	1:19.338  43 / 101
5 N Hulkenberg 	   Sauber F1 Team 	1:19.502  22 / 99
6 L Hamilton 	   Mercedes 		1:19.519  12 / 15
7 S Perez 	   McLaren Mercedes 	1:19.572  20 / 81
8 F Massa 	   Ferrari 		1:19.914  16 / 78
9 P Maldonado 	   Williams F1 Team 	1:20.693  47 /71
10 J Rossiter 	   Force India 		1:21.273  14 / 19
11 G Van Der Garde Caterham F1 Team 	1:21.311  77 / 88
12 L Razia 	   Marussia 		1:23.537  27 / 31