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The 2014 pre-season testing at Jerez ended on Friday, with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team concluding their runs with both drivers getting behind the wheel of the new F1 W05 for over a race's length.
At precisely 09:00 AMG, Nico Rosberg emerged from the pits an delivered an impressive 91 laps of running in the wet before lunch, which is more than a race distance.
Lewis Hamilton got behind the wheel of the Mercedes-AMG F1 W05 right before 15:00, his 41 laps adding to the total of 1,368 km (850 miles) over the entire four days of testing in Spain.
Paddy Lowe: “Today’s program was designed around completing race simulation work. In damp conditions this morning, Nico conducted a baseline run before running a 74-lap race simulation on intermediate tires, including two pit-stops. This was completed faultlessly before we stopped for lunch. At that point, in view of the large discrepancy between our drivers’ mileage this week, we decided to put Lewis in the car for the afternoon.
Conditions were very tricky on a damp track, spitting with rain and in cold temperatures. That meant we struggled to find grip on the intermediate tires and the slicks. Nevertheless, he completed 41 laps to bring our total for the day to 132 laps. At the end, he successfully completed some race starts. Overall, it was a very solid day which brought a very successful week to a close. My thanks go to the entire team at Brackley, Brixworth and PETRONAS for bringing us to this point. It feels like we have hit the ground running, although we still have many aspects of both the car and the Power Unit to improve before the next track test in Bahrain.”
The second pre-season test is to be held in a little over two weeks from now, at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Lewis Hamilton got behind the wheel of the Mercedes-AMG F1 W05 right before 15:00, his 41 laps adding to the total of 1,368 km (850 miles) over the entire four days of testing in Spain.
Paddy Lowe: “Today’s program was designed around completing race simulation work. In damp conditions this morning, Nico conducted a baseline run before running a 74-lap race simulation on intermediate tires, including two pit-stops. This was completed faultlessly before we stopped for lunch. At that point, in view of the large discrepancy between our drivers’ mileage this week, we decided to put Lewis in the car for the afternoon.
Conditions were very tricky on a damp track, spitting with rain and in cold temperatures. That meant we struggled to find grip on the intermediate tires and the slicks. Nevertheless, he completed 41 laps to bring our total for the day to 132 laps. At the end, he successfully completed some race starts. Overall, it was a very solid day which brought a very successful week to a close. My thanks go to the entire team at Brackley, Brixworth and PETRONAS for bringing us to this point. It feels like we have hit the ground running, although we still have many aspects of both the car and the Power Unit to improve before the next track test in Bahrain.”
The second pre-season test is to be held in a little over two weeks from now, at the Bahrain International Circuit.
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