Tuesday, 15th April 2008

Italian tries next year's tyre and aero package at Barcelona test.

"We used the standard 2008 VJM01, with the 2008 grooved tyres, to establish a baseline set-up but, in the afternoon, moved to the 2009 downforce level and tyres," Gascoyne confirmed, "We obtained some useful information on their respective performance and, after a basic warm-up, the tyres behaved better than we expected. On longer runs, there is some drop off with the 2009 tyres and there is still some work to do, so we will continue tomorrow with a similar programme with Giancarlo and hope to push on with the solid work we put in today."

Giancarlo Fisichella takes over behind the wheel for the second day of testing, with Adrian Sutil finishing the test on Wednesday.

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