Barcelona Test: Summary

Posted on Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 and tagged with barcelona, testing.

The AT&T Williams team concluded the three day test at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya today with Nico Hulkenberg on duty for the team.

Nico rounded off the week's test with further preparatory work for next season, covering 52 laps of the 4.655km track and recording the 10th quickest time of the day with a 1:22.410.

Sam Michael, Technical Director:
“For this week’s Barcelona test, we ran the interim FW30B car in order to continue our preparation work for 2009. The car has a lower downforce level to the 30, and more closely represents what the teams expect to run next season. Obviously the aero components being run this week are not the latest specification versions as no one wants to reveal what they've been working on at this stage!
We’ve covered some useful mileage over the past three days. It’s been a particularly helpful exercise to put the miles on the engine and transmission which will have to last three races next season. We also made progress on various mechanical and aerodynamic components and, although we've used the slick tyres in previous tests, we are now focussing our full attention on them.”

Nico Hulkenberg:
“I think we’ve had a pretty successful test this week with the interim car. I ran for two days and covered lots of laps, and it was great for me to be a part of this test where we’re trying out elements of the ’09 configuration. We ran without any problems on day one which was really positive as we’re testing so many new things for next year. Today, we lost sometime during the session but the track time we did get gave us some interesting information. The new aero package delivers significantly less downforce which means cornering speeds are much reduced. In all, it was a productive few days for the team”

Team Stats Summary

Driver                Total Days    Total KMS        Best Time    Best Position
N Rosberg             1                526.00            1:21.525         7th
K Nakajima            0                  -                     -                        -
N Hulkenberg        2               782.04             1:22.410         10th