Silverstone Test Day 1
Tuesday June 19, 2007
Location: Silverstone, United Kingdom
Driver: Ralf Schumacher
Track Length: 5.141km
SILVER MINING
Following its trip to North America for the grands prix in
Montreal and Indianapolis, Panasonic Toyota Racing today returned
to action in Europe. The team has a three-day test scheduled
this week at the UK circuit of Silverstone. The track will
play host to the British Grand Prix in less than three weeks
so this test gives teams the chance to complete some useful
mileage at the Northamptonshire venue. For Toyota Ralf Schumacher
was driving today, working on different systems but concentrating
on set-up work for next month’s race. He also carried
out some qualifying runs and even recorded the fastest time
of the day. The team will continue testing at Silverstone
tomorrow with Jarno Trulli at the wheel.
Ralf Schumacher – Chassis TF107/03
Best lap time: 1m 22.794s
Position: 1st
Total laps: 71
Total distance: 365.0km
“In general it was a successful day and we made it
through everything that we had planned. We were concentrating
on set-up work, primarily targeted at the British Grand Prix.
We also looked at some different aero settings and did some
qualifying runs. The conditions were very good, particularly
in the morning, although the wind picked up in the afternoon.
We had one stoppage after lunch while we changed some suspension
settings but overall things went well.”
Gerd Pfeiffer, Test Team Manager
“We are spending the week focusing on set-up work for
next month’s British Grand Prix and today was a positive
way to start. This morning went quite well, we did some tyre
comparisons and we went through different set-ups. We also
did work with a few different aerodynamics settings and we
carried out some qualifying runs. All in all we made it through
51 laps before lunch. In preparation for the afternoon session
we carried out some changes to the suspension settings and
we spent the rest of the day doing some more comparisons.
From tomorrow we will have Jarno driving and we hope to make
further progress.”
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