TEST REPORT - SILVERSTONE - DAY ONE
Date: Wednesday 20th September 2006
Drivers: Pedro de la Rosa and Lewis Hamilton
Location: Silverstone, UK
Track Length: 5.141km
Weather: Overcast
Track Temperature: High of 24.5 degrees Celsius
Air Temperature: High of 24.2 degrees Celsius
Laps Run: 180
Kilometres Covered: Pedro – 596km approx.
Lewis – 329km approx.
Best Lap Time: Pedro – 1m19.919 at 16:48
Lewis – 1m20.857 at 16:57
Programme: Pedro’s focus today has been on Michelin
work for the Japanese Grand Prix, with additional set-up programmes
for China and Japan alongside the tyre evaluation. The session
saw Lewis make his test debut and the team continued to focus
on the familiarisation programme of the MP4-21 and the testing
process.
Lewis Hamilton Quote: “I am really
pleased to have made my full test debut with Team McLaren
Mercedes today at Silverstone. It has been a positive session,
working through more systems checks with the car during the
day, with my focus on this rather than going for times. It
is a steep learning curve, and as a result I am making sure
I get the most out of my time with the test team and the engineers.
It was great to be able to stretch the legs of the MP4-21
round Silverstone, the car is fantastic to drive, even more
so as I am doing longer runs than yesterday and you can actually
start to build up a proper rhythm.”
Drivers for Day Two: Pedro and Lewis
Duration of Test: Two days (Wednesday 20th – Thursday
21st September)
Unofficial times*:
Pos Driver Constructor Time Laps
1 Nelson Piquet Jr Renault 1m19.560 74
2 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1m19.690 120
3 Pedro de la Rosa Team McLaren Mercedes 1m19.919 116
4 Franck Montangy Toyota 1m20.629 92
5 Alex Wurz WilliamsF1 1m20.821 68
6 Lewis Hamilton Team McLaren Mercedes 1m20.857 64
7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1m21.131 53
8 Sakon Yamamoto Super Aguri 1m21.977 67
9 Alexandre Premat Spyker MF1 1m23.213 85
10 Narain Karthikayan WilliamsF1 1m24.912 40
11 Ronnie Quintorely Spyker MF1 1m36.633 5
*no official times available
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