Day 2 for the Renault F1 Team in Barcelona.
The Renault F1 Team was on track for its second day of testing
in Barcelona today, to continue its development programme.
The two race drivers, Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella,
were working on preparations for the next European races and
especially the Spanish Grand Prix.
The programme today for the Renault drivers was mainly focused
on chassis set up in order to find the optimum way to exploit
the Michelin tyres. Regarding the engine, the team wanted
to continue the evaluation and mapping of the new spec B,
which has so far performed in line with its objectives.
Fernando Alonso today covered 106 laps on his final day of
testing. The Spaniard was once again very competitive as he
set the second-fastest laptime in 1'14.532, which he recorded
early this morning.
Giancarlo Fisichella, who started his programme today, had
a busy day with 112 laps covered and finally set the sixth-fastest
laptime of the day in 1'15.105.
Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer: "We
had a productive day once again and we completed an interesting
programme on both cars. The package was extremely reliable
which allowed us to do lots of runs today and to complete
our programme. We learned a lot about the behaviour of the
R26 and made did interesting steps for the next races. Barcelona
is a very good track for development work and we will have
a busy day again tomorrow."
DRIVER - TEAM - BEST LAPS
1 TRULLI Toyota 1'14.522 81
2 ALONSO Renault 1'14.532 106
3 M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari 1'14.711 94
4 RAIKKONEN McLaren 1'14.899 93
5 HEIDFELD BMW 1'14.940 66
6 FISICHELLA Renault 1'15.105 112
7 ROSBERG Williams 1'15.209 82
8 BUTTON Honda 1'15.292 150
9 KLIEN Red Bull 1'15.299 101
10 COULTHARD Red Bull 1'15.347 101
11 BARRICHELLO Honda 1'15.388 133
12 R.SCHUMACHER Toyota 1'15.410 73
13 VILLENEUVE BMW 1'15.547 97
14 MONTOYA McLaren 1'15.686 103
15 MASSA Ferrari 1'15.727 86
16 WEBBER Williams 1'16.019 108
17 SPEED Toro Rosso 1'16.599 102
18 SATO Super Aguri 1'19.826 22
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