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Saturday ,20 February 2010

Jerez II report – day four of four

Tonio Liuzzi brought the VJM03’s second test to a close today at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit. The Italian covered 80 laps of the Spanish track with a programme that included work on set-up and understanding the car’s behaviour with the heavier fuel loads necessitated by the race refuelling ban this year. His fastest lap of 1:19.650 was the fourth quickest of the day.

The team’s testing programme will now move to Barcelona next week from 25 – 28 February. Tonio will drive for the first two days, with Adrian Sutil taking over for the final two days.
 

Tonio Liuzzi
Today was a really productive day for us. We covered 80 laps without any issues and got through our programme of test items for this week. Everything went pretty well – we worked on understanding the car’s performance with different fuel loads and ran through some set-up changes and the car is responding well. We still need to work on the tyres over the longer runs and will continue this at the next test in Barcelona. Overall I think we can be very satisfied with how this test has gone and can look forward to another good test next week.
 

Dominic Harlow, chief race engineer
A good day to finish the eight days of testing in Jerez. Tonio completed a broad programme of set-up tests and we are satisfied with what was learned. We’ve made good progress this week, having tidied up some reliability issues, and developed our set-up options with the VJM03. The team has begun its race preparation in earnest and we will head to Barcelona to continue this work over the final test before the first race of 2010. 
 

Testing data
Driver:         Tonio Liuzzi
Track:         Circuito de Jerez, Spain
Best lap time:         1:19.650 
Laps completed:         80
Kilometres completed: 355km
Air temperature: High of 16C
Track temperature:         High of 24C
Weather:                 Sunny spells

 

 
 
 
1.
Posted by : Damodar b |  26 February 2010 at 12:46:19 PM
i am great fan for force India .I hope adrian sutill and Liuzzi do there job perfectly, i think force india rock this season.It goes well for them .All the best to force india as well as new test driver paul di Resta.
   
2.
Posted by : sandeep |  25 February 2010 at 4:38:07 PM
We want a repeat of 2nd half of last year's run for Force India again. The expectations have raised so high from Force India for 2010. Iam really looking forwardto 2010. I am sure this year, the team would be among the top 5 constructors championships. Early signs are already visible from the testing results. All the best Sutil/Luizzi and Force India!
   
3.
Posted by : Ankur Gupta |  24 February 2010 at 12:59:00 PM
I have watching f1 from the last so many years now, however, i never knew that this much of intense practice sessions went into it before going for the race. All this information of the web site is a good chance for us to understand the game much better. Good Luck Vijay and good luck Force India
   
4.
Posted by : sen |  22 February 2010 at 11:50:17 AM
good job by tonio and force india team
   
5.
Posted by : veelas |  22 February 2010 at 8:50:04 AM
i hope this season force india back on track. new season,new hopes,new track and we get world championship point. sutil and Liuzzi bang this season. Go force india Go All the best.
   
6.
Posted by : Andrew Chrisraj, 8th std,St.Claret School-Bangalore. |  21 February 2010 at 2:26:44 PM
I am a Shumi fan,but I want Force India to win more races this year.All the best for Sutil and Liuzzi.
   
 

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