Barcelona Testing, Day 3, 27/02/2008 - 27 FEB 2008
The ING Renault F1 Team concludes it pre-season preparations
in Barcelona
Fernando Alonso, R28-03, 114 laps, 531 km, fastest lap: 1'21.454
Nelson Piquet, R28-01, 128 laps, 596 km, fastest lap: 1'21.443
The ING Renault F1 Team completed its final day of pre-season
testing today at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona.
The team enjoyed good weather throughout the day with warm
and sunny conditions allowing the team to complete an uninterrupted
programme.
The team was running two R28s with Fernando Alonso and Nelson
Piquet remaining in the cars to complete their final laps
before the opening race of the season in Melbourne.
Both drivers completed set-up programmes in the morning and
then long runs in the afternoon, which provided another chance
for the mechanics to run through pit stop drills. With good
reliability and the collection of valuable data, the team
has enjoyed another productive day. Both drivers completed
over a 100 laps, with Nelson covering the most of any driver
with 128.
Now the team's attention turns to Melbourne and the new season.
Both drivers will travel to Australia at the end of next week
to complete some fitness training and to acclimatise to the
time difference. Meanwhile, back at the factories in Enstone
and Viry Châtillon, the team will continue working hard
on the development of the R28.
Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer: "We
had a large programme to complete over the three days, and
we were quite ambitious with what we were working on. For
the most part we managed to complete everything we wanted
and we have completed all our homework in time for Melbourne.
"Between now and the first race we need to tidy up the
cars as much as possible; get all the new parts on the cars
that we have looked at during testing to get them into race
specification. Obviously we still have a lot of work to do
from these three tests because we've had three tests back-to-back
and not had much chance to analyse the data and understand
what has happened. So that is what will happen back at the
factories; there will be an element of thinking about what
has happened over these tests and taking using that information
for the first race."
DRIVER TEAM BEST LAPS
1 TRULLI Toyota 1'20.801 81
2 COULTHARD Red Bull Racing 1'21.258 76
3 ROSBERG Williams 1'21.293 77
4 KOVALAINEN McLaren 1'21.309 87
5 WEBBER Red Bull Racing 1'21.368 81
6 PIQUET ING Renault F1 Team 1'21.443 114
7 ALONSO ING Renault F1 Team 1'21.454 128
8 NAKAJIMA Williams 1'21.796 124
9 RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1'21.933 80
10 HAMILTON McLaren 1'22.011 103
11 GLOCK Toyota 1'22.155 66
12 FISICHELLA Force India 1'22.233 102
13 MASSA Ferrari 1'22.286 49
14 KUBICA BMW 1'22.299 93
15 BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1'22.457 98
16 SUTIL Force India 1'22.521 107
17 HEIDFELD BMW 1'22.624 61
18 BUTTON Honda 1'23.754 89
19 WURZ Honda 1'24.154 109
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