“The weather was kind to us today,” added the Cologne-based outfit's test team manager Gerd Pfeiffer, “despite looking ominous early on. We had a brief shower halfway through the morning, but apart from that we had a dry track to work on.
“That gave us plenty of time to make it through our programme of aerodynamics and set-up work for next week's British Grand Prix. There were a few interruptions for red flags, but Jarno had a solid day's work and we made some good progress. Now we will look to continue the momentum with Timo as we wrap up the test tomorrow.”
Nico Rosberg was third-fastest for similarly Toyota-powered
Williams as the young German looked at set-up work, with test team manager Dickie Stanford later commenting: “Nico resumed testing at Silverstone today and completed his scheduled programme prior to the British Grand Prix here next weekend. During the course of the day, he covered general set-up work and experienced no problems with either the car or any of the systems. Kazuki [Nakajima] joins us tomorrow for the final day of the test.”
Nelsinho Piquet set an encouraging fourth-best time in the
Renault, just over a second shy of Rosberg as he carried out 87 laps of set-up work and tyre evaluation for next weekend's race, before handing over the reins to team-mate
Fernando Alonso on day three.
“The track conditions were better than yesterday,” the 22-year-old Brazilian affirmed, “although it was quite windy and that made it difficult to be consistent. This is not unusual for
Silverstone, though, and it was good experience to run in these conditions as we can expect similar weather for the race.
“Our programme was based around improving the set-up of the car and general race preparation, which went well. I'm now looking forward to the race here next week.”
