“It was a bit frustrating for me with quite a bit of time sat in the car whilst it was being checked over. I’m looking forward to continue work on track tomorrow afternoon.” Jolyon Palmer: We know we have a solid baseline which we can work and build on to make a fast car. I feel that the car has good promise and we’re making definite progress every time we go out. “We’ve made some positive changes to the car since yesterday and I had a solid and productive morning with 61 laps completed. 59 laps completed today by Lance, which takes the team’s total to 122 for the day! #Williams40 /UDEEK6JvrL That’s it for day two of the second test. It was good to get a feel for them for the first time. I tried the supersofts but still have the ultrasoft remaining that I haven’t tried. We did some short runs, and tried some different compounds. That is what we are focusing on over these few days, and so far so good. I am just happy with getting some good running in, trying some stuff on the car and moving in the right direction.
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I am not really focussed on laptimes, as it is testing and we are exploring a lot of different things on the car and trying to move forward. As a team we got a lot of laps in, so we have a lot of positives to take out of today. I am quite happy with the afternoon and pleased with the morning watching Felipe do some solid running. It’s still difficult to know where we are compared to the others, but the car is definitely looking positive. I’m very happy with what I’ve seen and what I feel in the car. I’ve had a very good day and a half, but hopefully this is just the beginning and we can finish testing well. We’re happy with everything we tried in terms of set-up and trying different tyres. We completed all of our programmes and, like yesterday, I had a good feeling in the car. Overall we had a good clean day and completed 122 laps in total, which means we have a lot of useful data to look through tonight. He’s never tried the supersoft tyres before but he acquitted himself really well considering the circuit conditions he had at the time. Lance was back in the car in the afternoon and he did a good job. Felipe was driving this morning and we tried the ultrasoft tyres for the first time, so we’ve got some good data to look at.
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Today was a pretty busy day again, and also included a driver change at lunchtime. Williams Rod Nelson, Chief Test & Support Engineer: P10 on the screens with a best lap of 1:21.887. Every small issue on these cars takes a long time to fix, so we lost 90 minutes in getting it fixed, but nothing particularly bad.” We also had a small issue with the exhaust. It’s just one of those things when you go testing you find these things and you find the solutions.
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It seems like when it gets warmer it comes up. We need to work on that to get it better. In the afternoon we had some handling problems, understeer mainly.