Barcelona Test Day 2
Wednesday February 20, 2008
Location: Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Drivers: Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock
Track Length: 4.655km
SHOWER GAPS
The weather continued to dominate proceedings at Barcelona
on the second day of this week’s test programme for
Panasonic Toyota Racing. There was again rain before the start
of the day’s running and regular showers after that
ensured that most of the action took place on a wet track.
The 2008 restrictions on testing mileage and tyres mean that
most teams did not do much morning running and Toyota was
no exception. Conditions improved in the afternoon and Jarno
Trulli finished with 46 laps of set-up and aerodynamics work.
Timo Glock’s track time was even more limited, putting
in a single installation lap in the morning before some longer
set-up runs in the afternoon. Timo will return to the track
in hope of a better day’s testing tomorrow alongside
third driver Kamui Kobayashi.
Timo Glock – Chassis TF108-01
Best lap time: 1m 32.407s
Position: 7th
Total laps: 33
Total distance: 153.6km
“That was only half a day’s work for me today
because the morning was too wet for us to gain anything from
testing. In the afternoon we did some running in the wet conditions
– first on heavy wet tyres, changing to standard wet
tyres. The track conditions changed quite a lot as the track
dried out but not enough. It was difficult to draw conclusions
but we found a similar picture to the dry which will help
us define where we concentrate our work. We have a few more
days of testing to work out how to move forward so we will
push hard.”
Jarno Trulli – Chassis TF108-04
Best lap time: 1m 32.571s
Position: 8th
Total laps: 46
Total distance: 214.1km
“It was another difficult day for testing so we just
collected some data in order to understand how the car works
in this type of weather. The positive thing is that we were
able to learn about the tyre warm-up behaviour in these conditions.
I’m returning to test here next week so hopefully we’ll
have better weather then. We have plenty of work ahead but
when the conditions are normal I do feel we can be competitive.”
Dieter Gass, Chief Engineer Race and Test
“This has been another day when we have been at the
mercy of the weather. We were again limited for the running
we were able to do because of the tyre situation. We completed
some more mileage in the afternoon with both cars –
Jarno doing aero work and Timo concentrating on set-up. But
it is still difficult to assess data from this kind of running.
We hope the weather should be better tomorrow but we will
have to see how long it takes for the track to dry out.”
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