Busy day for Liuzzi

Liuzzi in action today
By Karl King
February 12 2008

Tonio Liuzzi completed 103 laps of the Jerez test circuit in Spain in his newly liveried VJM01 today. The Italian set a fastest lap time of 1m21.553 which was good enough for 15th on the timesheets, ahead only of struggling Honda tester Alex Wurz, almost four tenths slower than Liuzzi. The day's leading pace was set by Briton Lewis Hamilton.

Fortunately, for the sport as a whole, Hamilton was free from the racist abuse he experienced at the last Spanish test.

Hamilton's quickest time was a 1m19.102, 2.451 seconds faster than Liuzzi's. Directly above Liuzzi on the timesheets was Super Aguri's Takuma Sato, 0.153s quicker.

Liuzzi said, 'Today was a good day. We managed to do a lot of mileage, which was the target today following the shortened days we have had at the previous tests. We had a few items to test for the new car and managed to complete the programme with some promising progress. As I had a full day I was able to get more comfortable in the car and feel very positive about it. We now need to put all the information together, look through the data and keep everything going forward.'

Tonio's worked foucussed on new gearbox development items, the 2008 electronics package and brakes.

Adrian Sutil will take over on Thursday.

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