Belgian GP Practice

Posted on Friday 26 Aug 2011

Objectives P1
•   Testing of upgrade components

Objectives P2
•   Continued evaluation of FW33 upgrades
•   Tyre runs and set-up work

Sam Michael, Technical Director
With plenty of rain here today, both cars went through a series of wet set-up tests throughout the two sessions. The limited dry running still allowed us to check rear wing level, brake cooling and engine cooling.

Rubens Barrichello
It was good to be back in the car after what feels like a long time. The only problem I had today was the KERS not working in the afternoon session. Apart from that, it was a pretty straight forward day working through our development parts.

Pastor Maldonado
Conditions were quite difficult today because it wasn’t completely wet or completely dry. But I think it was a positive day and I’m looking forward to tomorrow. We need to improve more in the wet but in the dry the car felt well balanced. There is still much we can improve.

Practice Conditions

	Session 1	Session 2
Weather	Intermittent rain showers	Intermittent rain showers
Air & Track Temperatures	21 - 23C / 22 - 27C	20 - 23C / 19 - 25C
Rubens Barrichello, FW33-04 CA323	2:05.391 (8th) 12 laps	1:53.156 (16th) 17 laps
Pastor Maldonado, FW33-02 CA324	2:08.918 (15th) 10 laps	1:52.750 (12th) 20 laps
n/a, n/a	n/a	n/a
Quickest Time	M Schumacher 1:54.355	M Webber 1:50.321