TEST REPORT - JEREZ - DAY THREE
Date: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen
Location: Circuito de Jerez, Jerez, Spain
Track Length: 4.423km
Weather: Light patchy rain throughout the day: Track temperature,
23.9°C / Ambient temperature, 17.2°C
Laps Run: Total - 152
Kilometres Covered: Lewis - 323km approx / Heikki - 350km
approx.
Best Lap Time: Lewis- 1m20.099 at 16:39 / Heikki - 1m20.535
at 16:33
Programme: With more rain falling at the circuit in southern
Spain today, wet track conditions meant that, on top of the
continuing development programme, the team took the opportunity
to look into improving engine drivability and car handling
with wet settings. In addition the MP4-23 has been running
with the new FIA ECU codes and development of this was also
a focus. Lewis had a couple of minor off track excursions
during the day due to changing track conditions. His car was
not damaged and he was able to complete the test plan for
the day.
Martin Whitmarsh: "We have now completed six full track
days with two MP4-23’s and already clocked up approximately
4193km’s on our 2008 challenger, 1,000kms of which were
covered yesterday alone, and we are only halfway through the
third week in January. It has been an immensely productive
start to our pre-season test programme and is a strong motivation
for the team to keep pushing. Although it is far too early
in the development stage of the car to be predicting how competitive
it will be, initial feedback from the drivers and the team
has been positive and we have a huge amount of data on which
to base the continuing development programme around."
Total Laps Run at Test: Total - 496: Lewis - 73 / Heikki
- 259 / Pedro - 164
Kilometres Covered at Test: Total - 2,194: Lewis - 323km approx
/ Heikki - 1,147km approx / Pedro - 724km approx
Next Test: Valencia, Spain (Tuesday 22nd - Thursday 24th January)
Unofficial times*:
Pos Driver Constructor Time Laps
1 Timo Glock Toyota 1m19.779 96
2 Lewis Hamilton Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1m20.099 73
3 Fernando Alonso Renault 1m20.363 49
4 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 1m20.407 61
5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m20.500 85
6 Heikki Kovalainen Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1m20.535 79
7 Kamui Kobayashi Toyota 1m20.577 53
8 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m20.646 88
9 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 1m20.758 57
10 Adrian Sutil Force India 1m21.705 71
11 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing 1m22.275 53
12 David Coulthard Red Bull Racing 1m22.581 54
13 Nico Hulkenberg Williams 1m24.023 65
14 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso 1m24.873 50
*no official times available
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