Hockenheim Test - Day three
Giancarlo Fisichella took over for the final day of the
Force India Formula One Team's three-day test at the Hockenheimring.
Following on from Adrian Sutil's progress over the past two
days, Giancarlo worked on aero development, tyre comparisons
and establishing a set-up for the German Grand Prix in just
over a week's time.
Although the Italian's quickest lap was just one second slower
than the day's fastest time, he completed just 74 laps over
the day. The programme was curtailed in the morning following
a fuel system failure at around 10:30, and then a heavy impact
in the afternoon. Both caused some down time, however the
team were able to complete the overall test programme.
The team will now return to its Silverstone HQ to reintegrate
the test findings into its preparations for next week's German
Grand Prix.
Team quotes
Dominic Harlow, chief race and test engineer
'We had much better weather today, which was more representative
of the conditions we are likely to see in the race next week.
The programme focussed on testing some aero development items,
brakes and tyre comparisons and, despite the downtime, we
were able to complete the test objectives. The two issues
we had did not cause us too many problems; we had a fuel system
failure in the morning and then the repairs following Giancarlo's
accident took a couple of hours, but our programme was completed
as part of preparations for the race here.'
Giancarlo Fisichella
'It was a bit frustrating we could not do more running. In
the morning we had the technical problem and had to stop for
some time, then in the afternoon I had an accident. The rear
of the car went away and I just lost control through the stadium
complex. The car went across the road and there's not much
run off area there so I went into the wall. I'm fine, but
the car was quite badly damaged. The guys did a good job to
get it out again for the last 30 minutes. Overall we are making
some small improvements and moving forward. We will have to
see how they work next weekend.'
Testing data
Driver: Giancarlo Fisichella
Track: Hockenheimring, Germany
Best lap time: 1min 16.133
Laps completed: 74
Kilometres completed 338km
Air temperature: High of 31ºC
Track temperature: High of 40ºC
Weather: Dry and warm
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