BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX - FREE PRACTICE
AT&T Williams opened their Brazilian Grand Prix campaign
today steadily progressing through set-up work during Friday’s
free practice sessions. Nico Rosberg was joined by Kazuki
Nakajima having been promoted to a race seat for the last
Grand Prix. Under some cold and damp conditions at the Carlos
Pace Autodromo, the team concluded the season’s final
practice day with both drivers in the top ten, Nico in 7th
place and Kazuki in 8th on his debut outing.
Nico Rosberg:
It was a pretty good day for us, especially in the wet, but
you always need to be careful with Friday’s times. We
didn’t show our true potential, but that’s probably
the same for everyone today. We had a dry track in the afternoon
and we now know that the tyre choice is going to be difficult.
We tried a few directions on the set-up; we didn’t get
it quite perfect, but we know how to get it right for tomorrow’s
qualifying.
Kazuki Nakajima:
It was good for my first day, especially the afternoon session.
My lap time was quite close to Nico’s and that was one
target for the weekend. We had some balance problems, but
I think that is the same for everyone here. The track is really
good fun to drive and it’s not giving my neck any problems.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s qualifying session
now.
Sam Michael, Technical Director:
It was a wet morning which meant we had a busy afternoon
going through the two dry tyre compares on both cars, but
we worked our way through the programme. We didn’t experience
any mechanical problems on either car. Kazuki did a good job
on his first day as a Formula One race driver and he’ll
be aiming to repeat the performance again tomorrow.
SESSION 1 SESSION 2
AIR TEMP 18 - 190C 19 - 200C
TRACK TEMP 23 - 260C 25 - 290C
WEATHER Cloudy and wet Cloudy but dry
TOP 3
K RAIKKONEN 1:19.580
F MASSA 1:20.062
H KOVAL’NEN 1:20.829
L HAMILTON 1:12.767
F ALONSO 1:12.889
F MASSA 1:13.075
CHASSIS & ENGINE 1st SESSION 2nd SESSION
N ROSBERG FW29 – 05 / H188 1:21.064 (4th) 14 LAPS 1:13.655
(7th) 33 LAPS
K NAKAJIMA FW29 – 03 / H187 1:23.261 (16th) 26 LAPS
1:13.664 (8th) 38 LAPS
|
