Jerez Testing, Day 1
The Renault F1 Team continued its winter testing programme
today for the last session of the year.
The Renault F1 Team was back in Jerez today for its last
testing session of the season. Giancarlo Fisichella and Heikki
Kovalainen continued their programme at the wheel of the R26
which on-track career will end this week.
The objectives of this session were pretty similar to the
ones from last week. The main priority was once again to add
as much mileage as possible on the new 2007 gear box that
equipped the two Renault cars this week. The other goal was
to continue working on an important tyre programme with our
new partner Bridgestone.
Today the Renault F1 Team enjoyed a trouble-free day and
the two drivers had the opportunity to cover 215 laps with
significant progress especially since they still have two
days of test left.
At the end of the session, Heikki topped the timing sheet
in 1:19.466 and his team mate set the fifth-fastest laptime
in 1:20.108.
Giancarlo Fisichella
"I am very pleased with this first day as we covered
a good number of laps and made excellent progress in our programme.
It was a very positive day which will be very useful for the
next two days."
Heikki Kovalainen
"We made good progress in all the different areas especially
regarding the tyre and the new gear box. We recorded good
data which will be a good basis for 2007."
Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer
"It was a good first day of testing. We completed our
programme on both cars and enjoyed a trouble-free day which
is quite satisfying as we are running the two cars with the
new gear box this week."
DRIVER TEAM BEST LAPS
1 KOVALAINEN Renault 1 :19.466 113
2 BADOER Ferrari 1 :19.903 78
3 KLIEN Honda 1 :19.992 122
4 ROSSITER Honda 1 :20.012 97
5 FISICHELLA Renault 1 :20.108 102
6 DE LA ROSA McLaren 1 :20.129 111
7 MASSA Ferrari 1:20.162 75
8 HEIDFELD BMW 1:20.210 82
9 TRULLI Toyota 1:20.235 94
10 MONTAGNY Toyota 1:20.475 56
11 PAFFETT McLaren 1:20.533 88
12 VETTEL BMW 1:20.554 94
13 NAKAJIMA Williams 1:20.874 96
14 SATO Super Aguri 1:20.971 121
15 AMMERMULLER Red Bull 1:21.367 90
16 LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1:21.843 67
17 BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1:22.513 80
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