Summary of the day:<\/b><\/p>\n
Runs with a heavy fuel load allowed Nick Heidfeld to improve his understanding of Pirelli tires, optimizing his lap times while monitoring his tires. The gathered information confirms that the R31 exhibits a good balance in terms of tire wear, with the front and rear wearing at similar rates.<\/p>\n
Nick Heidfeld – 4th fastest time:<\/b> We started this final day by working on the car’s balance with a view to Melbourne. The settings were useful and taught us a few additional things. We would have liked to do more laps and I hoped to complete a race distance later in the day. But the gearbox problem after lunch kept us stuck in the garage a bit too long. Despite that, we managed to get out for the last hour and drive with a heavy fuel load.<\/p>\n
Technical notes of Alan Permane<\/b><\/p>\n
The morning was good. The car was running well, with a good rhythm. The program was to continue the work on the setup started earlier this week.<\/p>\n
We had planned a race simulation for this afternoon, but unfortunately we had to change the gearbox at lunchtime. In the end, we chose to do a long run with a very full tank.<\/p>\n
The R31 will return from testing in Barcelona tomorrow and will leave for Melbourne on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nick Heidfeld completed the final pre-season tests for the team in ideal weather conditions, two weeks before the first Grand Prix in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-22350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-essais-prives"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n