Jerez Test – Day 2
Location: Circuito Permanente de Jerez, Spain
Drivers: Jarno Trulli, Franck Montagny
Track length: 4.428km
TANK TRAPPED
Panasonic Toyota Racing was back on track at the Circuito
Permanente de Jerez in Spain today for its penultimate day
of testing in 2006. Next season's Bridgestone tyres were again
the focus of the day's work and Jarno Trulli got his first
taste of the new rubber at Jerez. Franck Montagny was back
behind the wheel again for a second consecutive day but he
suffered a frustrating morning when a minor issue needed time-consuming
repairs. He returned to the car in the afternoon to continue
where he left off yesterday, gathering more information on
the new tyres and trying out different set-ups. Trulli was
able to go through his programme with no problems, completing
almost 100 laps, and he will return to action again tomorrow,
when he will be joined by Olivier Panis, who makes his final
appearance in Formula 1 after 12 years.
Jarno Trulli - Chassis TF106B/09
Best lap time: 1m20.244s
Total laps: 93
Total distance: 411.8kms
"We had a normal test today and it went well. I managed
to complete a lot of laps and I was mainly trying different
things on the car to find a good balance. It was my first
time on the new tyres at Jerez and they are obviously much
slower than last year's tyres were around here. There is a
lot of work we need to do to understand them fully but so
far so good."
Franck Montagny - Chassis TF106B/07
Best lap time: 1m20.493s
Total laps: 55
Total distance: 243.5kms
"Today I was expecting a good day and it was not. We
stopped after three laps with a minor issue on the car, something
we never had before and took quite a long time to fix. I didn't
go out again until the afternoon so we didn't have a lot of
time to do the set-up work but we did the comparison work
we wanted to do and that is a good thing. We carried on from
yesterday but we still have plenty of work to do to find a
perfect set-up on the car."
Pascal Vasselon, Senior General Manager Chassis
"It was a shame for Franck that the repair inside the
fuel tank this morning took so long but unfortunately a small
issue sometimes takes a long time to put right. The mechanics
worked hard to get him out on track after lunch and he was
able to continue with the tyre testing he started yesterday.
Jarno had a good day testing tyres and set-up and we are pleased
with the information we got. Both drivers did some long runs
and the tyres seemed quite consistent."
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