The Renault team remained in Monza on Thursday as Fernando Alonso took over the R28 for the first of two days work with the team this week. Perfect weather conditions greeted the team once again and made for ideal track conditions, allowing the team to continue with the evaluation of its new low downforce aero package.

Fernando Alonso initially worked on improving the set-up in the morning before attention shifted to testing braking solutions in the afternoon. It was another productive day, with the Spaniard completing 95 laps, showing good reliability and gathering lots of valuable information.

"It was a busy day as we tried lots of different settings on the car to try and improve the overall balance. Once we were happy with the basic set-up, we did some work on the brakes as this circuit is very demanding in that area. We found out some interesting things and learnt quite a lot about how the car behaves with low downforce. The track conditions were not too bad and it was quite consistent, which is always useful when you are testing."

Alonso remains in the car for the final day of testing today when the team will complete its program.