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27 February
2010 @ 17:40 GMT - Charles Cooper
Nico Rosberg
completed the third day of testing for the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team
at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona today to bring his
pre-season testing programme to its conclusion.
Nico spent the
morning working on qualifying simulations and developing the car
set-up before completing a race simulation exercise in the afternoon.
Despite intermittent rain showers in the late morning and early
afternoon, Nico was able to complete almost 600kms over 128 laps as
he set the fastest time of the day, a 1:20.686, during the driest
period this morning.
Michael Schumacher
will take over the MGP W01 tomorrow for the fourth and final day of
the test.
Nico Rosberg:
We had a good day today and made some significant progress in
terms of set-up which was nice to see. We hadnt got the most
out of the car in terms of performance over the last couple of days,
but we made a step in the right direction today. We went through some
big changes this morning step by step and found some good
improvements. The longer runs this afternoon were interesting. We
learnt a lot as there were other cars running similar programmes at
the same time so we were able to do some comparisons. There is still
plenty of room to improve but overall were looking in pretty
good shape. |