Once again Jarno Trulli has been hard at work developing the new TF105 for the Panasonic Toyota Racing team ahead of the upcoming Australian Grand Prix.
With just five weeks remaining before the teams take to the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne Australia, the Italian driver completed a total of 636 kilometres around the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia in Spain to record a best overall time of 1:10.598, and it hasn’t been an easy task…..
“Valencia has been a difficult place to test this week because it has been extremely cold - especially early in the mornings,”he explained. “Thursday was a typical day here, with the cold making life pretty hard for us. At the end of the day the wind started gusting quite hard too, making it difficult to make comparisons.”
So, just how much work did the team manage to complete this week as a result?
”Apart from the conditions, Thursday was a positive day because we did a lot of laps quite easily,” Jarno said. “We found some good steps on the car, so we made some good progress. We also did some tyre testing which we continued on Friday with longer runs, along with work on set-up and dampers. I swapped to Olivier's car towards the end of Friday's session because of a mechanical problem on my chassis which would have required too much time to fix at the circuit.”
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