Barcelona Test #1 2016 – Day Four

Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Wednesday 24 February 2016. Felipe Massa, Williams FW38 Mercedes. World Copyright: Alastair Staley/Williams F1 ref: Digital Image _79P2922


Driver: Felipe Massa
Chassis / Engine: FW38-02 / PU106C Hybrid
Location: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 4.655km
Weather: Warm and Dry
Maximum air & track temps: 20ºC / 28ºC

Rod Nelson, Chief Test & Support Engineer:
Today was one of those days I’m afraid. We spent most of the morning doing aerodynamic correlation work which was pretty successful. We are getting through our programme day by day. Sadly, we had an issue with one of the car systems over lunchtime and that curtailed a lot of our running this afternoon which we had planned. We know what the issue is, we’ve got a solution, and now we look forward to next week.

Felipe Massa:
I am not so happy with today – it was not really a useful day. The most important things was that we carried out our aerodynamic tests this morning, to understand the numbers and everything around the car. Unfortunately, we couldn’t run much this afternoon. I had hoped to do more laps than I did.

Felipe Massa: 1:26.483 (10th) on lap 43/54

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