Barcelona Test Day 2
Location: Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Drivers: Jarno Trulli
Track Length: 4.655km
RAIN’S A PAIN IN SPAIN
The weather was the main player as Panasonic Toyota Racing
continued its winter test programme at Barcelona today. Rain
arrived at the Circuit de Catalunya at 5am and continued,
heavily at times, for most of the day. The result washed out
much of the running for the teams and Jarno Trulli didn’t
even make it out for an installation lap until shortly before
midday. The rain relented briefly at lunchtime and most of
the cars took advantage to put in some laps. Jarno put in
a few runs of work on systems during the breaks in the downpours.
But further showers later in the afternoon effectively cut
short the work for the day. Jarno will now return to action
tomorrow. Toyota will then take advantage of the extension
to the test and continue its work on Thursday with Ralf Schumacher
scheduled to drive.
Jarno Trulli – Chassis TF107/01
Best lap time: 1m 32.943s
Position: 7th
Total laps: 21
Total distance: 97.8km
“All I can say is that it has been a wet day. The weather
and conditions have been so bad that it has been pretty much
impossible for any of the teams to get any meaningful work
achieved. We managed to do some work on systems and electronics
in the few laps that we were able to do, but that’s
about it. Hopefully we will have a better day tomorrow. The
forecast is better so let’s hope we can get some more
useful results then.”
Gerd Pfeiffer, Test Team Manager
“On a day like this there is very little that you can
usefully achieve. We did some work on different engine specs,
we looked at some software and did some different mappings
for these weather conditions. But that’s about all you
can do and it’s the same for everyone. We will look
to achieve more over the course of the next two days. Tomorrow
there is a risk of showers in the morning but the afternoon
should be fine so Jarno should get some better running then.
The test has now been extended to Thursday when there is again
a lower risk of rain.”
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