Silverstone Testing, Day 3
A busy final day at Silverstone for the Renault F1
Team.
The Renault F1 Team today completed the week's testing in
Silverstone with another busy day at the Northamptonshire
circuit.
Heikki Kovalainen completed the tyre development that has
formed the main part of his work this week, completing short
and long runs as the team finalized with Michelin its selections
for the Japanese Grand Prix. After completing over 100 laps
for the second consecutive day, Heikki finished the day second
with a best lap of 1:19.571.
Across the garage, Nelsinsho Piquet concluded his first test
with a busy day of set-up work, as he continued to learn about
and fine-tune the R26. Nelsinho once again topped the times
after 86 laps in total, with a lap of 1:19.510.
Chief Test Engineer Christian Silk commented: "We
had another good day of testing to conclude our work this
week. The changeable circuit conditions during the day meant
we had to adapt our programme a little, but we managed this
and Heikki obtained excellent results on his tyre testing
for Suzuka. We are very happy with the Michelin tyres we will
be taking to Japan. Nelson continued settling in to the team
today, and ran a performance-focused set-up programme. He
did another good job, to complete a very promising first week
of testing with the team."
DRIVER - TEAM - BEST LAPS
1 NELSINHO Renault 1'19.510 86
2 HEIKKI Renault 1'19.571 103
3 HAMILTON McLaren 1'20.175 50
4 DE LA ROSA McLaren 1'20.285 107
5 R.SCHUM Toyota 1'21.388 52
6 PANIS Toyota 1'22.253 81
7 WURZ Williams 1'22.931 97
8 SATO Super Aguri 1'23.183 85
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