Problems with the clutch did not prevent the Williams

Problems with the clutch did not prevent the Williams

On the second day of testing in Jerez Williams continued tests of the new rubber and new aerodynamic solutions on last year's chassis. In the morning by car to Pastor Maldonado refused grip, but the mechanics were quickly eliminated breakage. . .

Mike Kaplan, technical Director: "in the Morning you have problems when installing the clutch, which is strange, because last year we used the same decision. We quickly eliminated the problem, but still lost some time, which was planned to be spent on aerodynamic research. Will try to catch up in the remaining two days.

In the afternoon we focused on testing rubber and worked with fine tuning that allowed us to understand in what direction we should move to a new machine. Our technical Department did a great job, and we are ready for the remaining two days of tests conducted Valtteri - he has long been waiting for this".

Pastor Maldonado: "Today I drove a long distance, working on graphics team, but we still have much work to do to better understand the features of the new rubber. Now we have a lot of data for further analysis, the team atmosphere is excellent, in the last two years, Andrew, my new race engineer, worked as an engineer in my racing team, I know him well, so prodolzhenie cooperation naturally".

Tomorrow at the wheel of a Williams will sit Valtteri Bottas.