Japanese GP: Williams Friday Practice Review
By Williams F1 Team
October 5 2012
The Williams F1 team looks back at their Friday practice for the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix.
| Williams Japanese GP Friday Practice Review |
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Objectives P1 & P2 • Aero evaluations • Tyre runs and set-up work • Long runs in the FP2 |
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Pastor Maldonado:
"We completed our programme today but we still have a lot of work to do. The car is looking consistent and our longer run pace was good. We still need to find some more performance ahead of qualifying so we'll now work through all the data we have gathered." |
Bruno Senna:
 "It was an interesting day as we learnt a lot of things about the testing we’ve been doing. Missing the morning session was difficult as we were fine tuning the car set-up to suit my driving style, but we had a clean session completing plenty of laps and so overall it was good experience." |
Valtteri Bottas:
 "Suzuka is a new track for me so it wasn’t an easy session and it took quite a few laps to get into the rhythm. In the first run, the car balance wasn’t ideal but we managed to improve the car for the second and third runs. I was also improving myself throughout the session. I think I have a new favourite track as Suzuka is fantastic to drive. It's challenging and very quick which makes it great fun." |
Mark Gillan Chief Operations
Engineer: "We
had a productive and extremely busy couple of sessions with the drivers
running different programmes in Suzuka today. We successfully tested a
number of new components and established a good base set-up for the
remainder of the weekend."
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| AT&T Williams Classification |
| Driver | Chassis & Engine | 1st Session | 2nd Session |
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| P MALDONADO | FW34-04 RS27 5360/2 |
1:35.478 (10th) 24 laps | 1:34.300 (15th) 33 laps |
| B SENNA | FW34-03 RS27-5318/2 |
- | 1:33.499 (8th) 35 laps |
| V BOTTAS | FW34-03 RS27-5318/2 |
1:36.389 (18th) 24 laps | - |
| Quickest Times | |||
| J Button 1:34.507 | M Webber 1:32.493 | ||
| Practice Conditions | |||
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Weather | Warm and dry | Hot and dry |
| Air Temp | 25 - 26C | 30 - 37C |
| Track Temp | 26 - 27C | 33 - 39C |
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Japanese GP: Williams Friday Practice Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 05/10/2012 10:17
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