Silverstone Test Day 3
Location: Silverstone, United Kingdom
Driver: Jarno Trulli
Track Length: 5.141km
WEATHER SUMMERY (FOR BRITAIN)
Panasonic Toyota Racing today completed its week’s
testing work at Silverstone. The Summer Solstice may be the
longest day of the year but the teams soon found that in Britain
that is no guarantee of seeing much of the sun. Clouds covered
the sky for most of the day but the worst of the forecast
rain failed to materialise. The morning session took place
on a dry track and the day’s heaviest shower conveniently
took place over the lunch break. Jarno Trulli was again in
action for Toyota, comparing tyres for the British Grand Prix
and doing other work on systems and suspension. Despite regular
interruptions for red flags he put in a total of 70 laps and
finished with the 5th fastest time. Toyota will next make
an appearance at this weekend’s Festival of Speed, which
takes place at the historic motor racing venue of Goodwood
in the south of England. The team’s next competitive
action will be at the French Grand Prix, scheduled for July
1 at Magny-Cours.
Jarno Trulli – Chassis TF107/03
Best lap time: 1m 21.703s
Position: 5th
Total laps: 70
Total distance: 359.9km
“This week has gone pretty well for us. We’ve
concentrated mainly on preparation for next month’s
British Grand Prix here but we’ve also done work in
preparation for the coming race at Magny-Cours next weekend.
Today I did some tyre comparisons and put some mileage on
some other systems on the car. We’ve been reasonably
quick here over the last three days but all that matters is
what you can achieve at the races. So far the season hasn’t
gone as well as we’d hoped but we will continue to push
to get the best out of the package in the next few weeks.
I’m looking forward to coming to race at Silverstone
because I believe that we should perform well here. But we
still have three weeks to go and anything can change before
then, including the weather.”
Gerd Pfeiffer, Test Team Manager
“We were expecting more rain today so we were prepared
to do some wet weather work. Instead the track stayed dry
for most of the hours of running so that was lucky. Jarno
spent the morning doing tyre comparisons, working on different
set-ups and looking at the suspension and other systems. In
the afternoon the continued dry weather meant that we were
able to do some work on aerodynamics and different weight
distributions. The only interruptions today were caused by
the frequent red flags but we made it through everything we
had planned. Overall it has been a successful week and we
look forward to using what we have learned here in the coming
races.”
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