Jerez Test - Day one
LIUZZI OPENS TEST FOR FORCE INDIA IN JEREZ
Tonio Liuzzi completed his first official day of duty for
the Force India Formula One Team today as he opened the team's
three-day test at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in southern
Spain.
After a wet start to the day, Force India - again running
in its interim burgundy and white colour scheme - pushed on
with its programme of getting to grips with the new 2008 electronic
package. Tonio completed 47 laps, the small number a knock-on
effect of the numerous red flag periods that punctuated the
day. Tonio was also hampered by minor hydraulic issues in
the morning and the afternoon's running, which again limited
the mileage the team could achieve. His best lap was a 1:23.035,
set in the afternoon.
Giancarlo Fisichella will take over from Tonio for tomorrow's
running, with Adrian Sutil getting behind the wheel for the
final day of testing on Wednesday.
Team quotes
Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer
'A reasonably productive day of testing, and good to shake
out the cobwebs and start again in 2008. As the morning was
wet we did some running in both wet and dry conditions, but
we had a couple of hydraulic issues throughout the day that
limited the lap count. Overall though a reasonably useful
day and it was good to start working with Tonio, who did a
very good job for the team.'
Vitantonio Liuzzi
'We have improved from the last test we did here and the car
seemed to respond better than last time, so that was already
better. It was quite a difficult day though as we had a few
mechanical problems and we had to wait in the garage for a
while, so we didn't put in too many laps, but the few laps
we did I think were pretty positive. It was just unfortunate
that the issues stopped us doing some more, but it is a three
day test and we can look forward to some more development.
We are going in the right direction and still have a lot of
work to do.'
Testing data
Driver: Vitantonio Liuzzi
Track: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Best lap time: 1min 23.035
Laps completed: 47
Kilometres completed 208km
Air temperature: High of 16ºC
Track temperature: High of 18ºC
Weather: Wet start followed by scattered clouds but dry
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