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Monza Testing, Day 1, 27/08/2008
By Renault F1
August 27 2008
The ING Renault F1 Team kicked off its Monza test today as Nelson Piquet completed a busy day of work at the Italian circuit just north of Milan. Conditions were ideal with a sunny sky and warm temperatures greeting the team as the first day of testing got underway.

That allowed the team to make good progress with its programme, which included set-up work on the R28 in preparation for the race here next month.

The team was running a new aerodynamic package designed especially to cope with the unique high-speed challenge of Monza. Nelson evaluated the new package and set about improving the overall balance of the car. In the afternoon attention shifted to longer runs and tyre evaluation.

By the end of the day, Nelson had completed 117 laps to give the team a good baseline to work from for the rest of the week. Fernando Alonso takes over driving duties for tomorrow and Friday.

Nelson Piquet: “It was a good day’s work and nice to complete so many laps. It’s the fastest circuit of the year and so we were trying out our low downforce package, which went well, although it always feels strange to drive with such little downforce on the car. The track was also quite green, which didn’t help, but I was happy with the set-up work we completed, even though we still have a lot to learn.”

Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer: “A solid day’s work with good reliability. We did plenty of laps to give Nelson as much running as possible with the car in low downforce trim. It’s always quite a challenge here to set the car up as it is such a unique circuit, but we’ve colleted lots of data from the first day’s running, which will give us a good base to work on from here.”

DRIVER

TEAM

BEST

LAPS

1

MASSA

Ferrari

1 :23.428

101

2

KOVALAINEN

McLaren

1 :23.439

78

3

ROSBERG

Williams

1 :23.461

60

4

VETTEL

Toro Rosso

1 :23.691

99

5

BARRICHELLO

Honda

1 :23.827

85

6

WEBBER

Red Bull Racing

1 :24.005

96

7

HEIDFELD

BMW

1 :24.075

77

8

LIUZZI

Force India

1 :24.239

99

9

TRULLI

Toyota

1 :24.510

92

10

PIQUET

ING Renault F1 Team

1 :24.540

117

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27 Aug, 2008 21:50 Report
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Monza Testing, Day 1, 27/08/2008

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Maybe we should change our engine to illegal one.

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Maybe we should change our engine to illegal one.

and then get disqualified?
You know you should not read too much into testing times.
What difference does it make in testing if the guy in front of us which is Trulli is 0.030 sec faster. See it means nothing.

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its not only the testing times and in the race is the same

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If you speak of Alonso, its was not his fault in Valencia for the race, but he did made a mistake in the final bit of the qualif, but earlier he had good pace.
I hungary he had good pace also.

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hungary is not a high speed circuit like the last race and monza though, but maybe people are jumping the gun on this engine power talk

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sorry but in valencia it was the first time i have seen in qualy engine power seperated into 2 halves

top 11 was 4 ferrari;s 3 toys, 2 macca and 2 bmw

bottom 11 was 4 renaults, 2 force india ferrari's 2 honda and 1 toy.

But dont worry in monza for some reason toyota sux big time while williams with the same engine is superior.

every uear in monza toyota sux i think its the curbs, bad suspension and mechanical grip were as williams are very very good in that department.


Only old hockenheim will show clearly the engine diffrences

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