Barcelona Testing, Day 4,
ING Renault F1 Team concludes productive Barcelona
test
Giancarlo Fisichella, R27-05, 63 laps, 293 km, best lap:
1:21.876
The ING Renault F1 Team completed the fourth and final day
of its test session at the Circuit de Catalunya, in preparation
for next weekend's 2007 Spanish Grand Prix. Although rain
interrupted running at lunchtime, limiting the useful work
that could be accomplished during the afternoon, the team
completed a large part of its programme during the morning,
with Giancarlo Fisichella at the wheel of chassis R27-05.
The Italian's work today concentrated on a set-up programme
to tune the car's handling to his liking; a comparison of
the two types of Bridgestone Potenza tyre that will be used
at next weekend's Grand Prix; and a research programme. At
the end of the day, the Italian had completed 63 laps, and
was fourth on the timesheets.
Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer: "We
completed most of our work this morning, when conditions were
still dry. Giancarlo was pretty happy with the car straight
way, and to a large extent this reflects the good progress
that we had made earlier in the week. Overall, we have enjoyed
a good week's work, with perfect reliability, and the team
has given maximum effort overall all four days. Given the
changeable weather conditions, we have done as much work as
possible on our technical problems, and collected lots of
useful data to analyse back at the factory."
DRIVER - TEAM - BEST LAPS
1 COULTHARD Red Bull Racing 1:21.066 59
2 DE LA ROSA McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.267 58
3 MASSA Ferrari 1:21.483 38
4 FISICHELLA ING Renault F1 Team 1:21.876 63
5 KUBICA BMW Sauber 1:22.098 55
6 SCHUMACHER Toyota 1:22.359 49
7 KLIEN Honda 1:22.807 80
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