Williams 2009 Japanese GP Friday Review

By Williams F1 Team
October 2 2009

 
 Williams Japanese GP Friday Practice
Objectives P1
• Wet running and wet tyre compare
• Aero systems checks

Objectives P2
• Set-up tuning for the wet
• Grid starts
 
Nico Rosberg: Nico Rosberg
 "Today was just a matter of trying out the tyres in order to get an understanding of where the change over points are and how the inters and full wets are working, degradation-wise. What was clear was that I pretty much destroyed the wets when the track dried out. With the information from both cars, we now have a good understanding of what is going on."

Runs P1: Run 1 new wets (1 lap) install, run 2 scrubbed wets (4 laps) baseline, run 3 new inters (8 laps) mechanical set-up, run 4 scrubbed inters (7 laps) fuel system test
Runs P2: Run 1 scrubbed wets (8 laps) set-up tuning for the wet and grid start,
Kazuki Nakajima: Nakajima
 "Not a great day in terms of weather, but in terms of results it was ok. We didn’t get many laps in, but those we did get gave us a good platform for any potential wet weather running over the weekend. It looks positive, so hopefully we’ll be in the same position tomorrow for qualifying, but in the dry, preferably!"


Runs P1: Run 1 new wets (1 lap) install, run 2 new inters (10 laps) baseline, run 3 scrubbed inters (7 laps) mechanical set-up and fuel system test
Runs P2: Run 1 scrubbed wets (8 laps) set-up tuning for the wet and grid start
 
Sam Michael Technical Director Williams F1:
 Sam Michael"It was a fairly uneventful day in terms of running the cars due to the weather. We checked both full wet and intermediate tyres and the wet set-up. Now we’ll prepare the cars for qualifying with new engines and the race gearboxes. We’ll have to be conservative on the gear ratios tonight due to no dry running at all."
 
Practice Results: Top Three Drivers
 
Position Driver & Lap Time (Session 1) Driver & Lap Time (Session 2)
1 H Kovalainen 1:40.356 A Sutil 1:47.261
2 K Nakajima 1:40.648 S Vettel 1:47.923
3 A Sutil 1:40.806 V Liuzzi 1:47.931
 
AT&T Williams Classification
 
Driver Chassis & Engine 1st Session Lap time 2nd Session Lap time
N Rosberg FW31-03/H474 1:42.188 (10th) 20 laps 1:49.872 (16th) 8 laps
K Nakajima FW31-04/H456 1:40.648 (2nd) 18 laps 1:48.058 (5th) 8 laps
 
Practice Conditions
 
  Session 1 Session 2
Weather Clear Clear
Air Temp 21 - 22C 22C
Track Temp 22 - 23C 22 - 23C
 

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