|
Date
|
Friday
24 February 2012
|
|
Track
|
Circuit
de Catalunya
|
|
Driver
|
Nico
Rosberg
|
|
No
of Laps
|
139
laps
|
|
Best
Lap Time
|
1:23.843
|
|
Kms Covered
|
647
km
|
|
Track
Length
|
4.655
km
|
Nico Rosberg
concluded this week’s test at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona for the
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team
today.
- Nico began
the day with in and out laps for pit stop
practice over a total of 17 laps
-
Milder temperatures allowed his race simulation to begin at 10:48,
although
this was interrupted halfway through by a red flag
-
The race simulation was conducted using hard compound Pirelli tyres;
the team
primarily ran soft tyres during the afternoon
-
Work this afternoon focused on set-up comparisons over runs of around
10 timed
laps
Nico
completed 139 laps in the F1 W03 today, equivalent to 647 km. By way of
comparison, this approached Nico’s
total of 161 laps
over the entire Spanish Grand Prix weekend in 2011. The F1 W03 has now
covered 2420
km in winter testing, over five official test days and two 100 km
filming days.
This equates to a daily average of 444 km during the test days, with
Michael
and Nico running for over
100 laps on Thursday and Friday respectively.
The
next test for MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS will take place at the Circuit de Catalunya from Thursday 1 to
Sunday 4 March.
Nico Rosberg
“After
our first full test with the
F1 W03, I can see that we are
making good steps forward. Our test programme went well this week and
we have
made evident progress each day. In terms of reliability, the car is
performing
pretty much as we expected which is really important as we can
concentrate on
improving the performance. Of course it’s difficult at this
stage to predict
how we will fare in race conditions against our competitors but overall
I’m
pleased with the start that we have made. I’m looking forward
to the final test
next week before the season begins, and continuing our learning with
our F1
W03.
Ross Brawn
“We
have had a very
positive first week of running with the F1 W03. After five full test
days, we
have completed over 2000 km, Nico
and Michael have
done consistent mileage and reliability has been ok, aside from a
couple of
problems earlier in the week. Both drivers have already completed full
race
simulations, and this really is a tribute to all the hard work that was
done
back at base in Brackley
and Brixworth
to ensure we hit the ground running this year with the new car
- as well
as to the efforts of our day and night shifts at the track in
Barcelona. This
basis means that the drivers and engineers have been able to work well
with the
car rather than chasing problems, and next week we hope to
focus even more
on getting performance out of our current package. Overall, we are in a
reasonable position, but I don’t for a moment believe we have
achieved our
objectives yet. It may be something of a winter testing
cliché, but there is
still an awful lot to be done, and it's far too early to make any kind
of
judgement about our competitiveness.”
TIMES
|
Pos
|
Driver
|
Car
|
Time
|
Laps
|
|
1.
|
Kamui
Kobayashi
|
Sauber
|
1:22.312
|
144
|
|
2.
|
Pastor
Maldonado
|
Williams
|
1:22.561
|
134
|
|
3.
|
Paul
Di Resta
|
Force
India
|
1:23.119
|
101
|
|
4.
|
Jenson
Button
|
McLaren
|
1:23.200
|
115
|
|
5.
|
Felipe
Massa
|
Ferrari
|
1:23.563
|
103
|
|
6.
|
Mark
Webber
|
Red
Bull
|
1:23.774
|
85
|
|
7.
|
Jean-Eric
Vergne
|
Toro
Rosso
|
1:23.792
|
92
|
|
8.
|
Nico Rosberg
|
MERCEDES
AMG PETRONAS
|
1:23.843
|
139
|
|
9.
|
Heikki Kovalainen
|
Caterham
|
1:26.968
|
70
|
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