BRITISH GRAND PRIX - FREE PRACTICE
FRIDAY 4 JULY, 2008
It was a busy day of preparation work for AT&T Williams
at Silverstone today. At the team’s home track, drivers
Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima, having already benefited
from a three day test here last week, continued their set-up
work ahead of tomorrow’s qualifying and Sunday’s
British Grand Prix. Neither session was without incident as
this morning’s practice was interrupted for twenty minutes
following Massa’s accident, while Kazuki cost himself
time at the end of the afternoon after he hit the wall at
turn 12 forcing himself out of the session prematurely.
Nico Rosberg:
After today, I think we can definitely say we had a productive
test here last week as we seem to have made good progress.
Our main objective for free practice was to focus on tyre
comparisons and we seem to have collected some positive results
from that. In terms of performance, we should be a step ahead
of where we were in Magny-Cours, but we really will have to
wait and see.
Kazuki Nakajima:
It was going fairly well before the accident. I lost the rear
at the exit of turn 12 and just spun into the wall. It’s
annoying to make such a mistake because it cost me important
track time. We’d been having a good run before that,
and making good progress for tomorrow, so I also apologise
to the team. I will now just keep my head down and look ahead
to qualifying.
Sam Michael, Technical Director:
We worked through our normal checks on tyres and also carried
out some set-up tests after feedback from the test here last
week. We didn’t experience any mechanical problems on
the cars, but Kazuki unfortunately had an excursion in the
second practice session and that meant he missed about twenty
minutes of running. We now have some work to do overnight
to be ready for qualifying tomorrow.
SESSION 1 SESSION 2
AIR TEMP 16 - 180C 22 - 240C
TRACK TEMP 17 - 210C 30 - 380C
WEATHER Sun with some cloud Sun with some cloud
TOP 3
F Massa: 1:19.575 H Kovalainen: 1:19.587
L Hamilton: 1:19.623 H Kovalainen: 1:19.989
M Webber: 1:20.520 L Hamilton: 1:20.543
CHASSIS & ENGINE
1st SESSION 2nd SESSION
N ROSBERG FW30-05 / H328 1:20.744 (10th) 27 LAPS 1:20.748
(5th) 43 LAPS
K NAKAJIMA FW30-04 / H323 1:21.282 (16th) 21 LAPS 1:20.985
(9th) 18 LAPS
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