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Renault have declared themselves happy with the opening day of play here at the Silverstone circuit in England. Although it was quite a challenging day, they are confident that they can be fairly happy with the work they have completed with both cars.
The French based squad had a productive morning and changed a few things on the cars over lunch, but it was much hotter and windier in the afternoon and they didn’t find the improvements they expected.
“It has been a fairly normal Friday for us. Of course there is a new layout this year, so I had to get a feeling for the braking points and the lines, but to be honest it only took a couple of laps. We then evaluated a new front wing, but we will probably use the older spec for the rest of the weekend,” said Robert Kubica.
“In the afternoon we worked on the set-up just to get a feeling for the car, but I think we will stick with the settings we had this morning. The new part of the track was dirty and slippery because it was quite windy and there was a lot of dust. There is also a huge bump in turn 11 on the new tarmac, which is quite surprising for a new section of track.”
The team brought another front wing development, however it does not seem as suited to the high-speed corners here as they would have hoped. It was an improvement in the low-speed sections, but not overall lap time.
“One of the most important things today was to learn the new part of the track, which is quite interesting. However, there is a big bump at turn 11, which is a very quick part of the track and this was causing problems for a lot of cars,” said Vitaly Petrov.
“Once I had learned the new section, I started to work on the set-up and we changed quite a bit between FP1 and FP2 and found an improvement with the balance. We will continue working this evening and looking at the data to be ready for tomorrow.” |
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