Mark Webber: "the First day is encouraging"

Mark Webber: first day of optimism

Mark Webber took second place in the first day of testing in Jerez, passing 1:19 for the fastest lap. 709. in summing up, he said, that is not surprised by the speed of the machine, because it has become the offshoot RB8, which last year earned the team a win in both categories.
Mark Webber: "Everything went pretty well. As Adrian Newey at the presentation of the machine, this year's schedule has hardly changed, so was last year's evolution machine RB9, so no big surprises. It seems to me, in the evening, many of the racers decide that the results of the first day of the tests look good.
In some ways, day recalled the Friday workout. We have begun work with tire behavior analysis and have gained a lot of positive points. We will also address several supporting tasks, but in the rest of the day was encouraging.

The machine resembles last year's, the main difference is the new tires. These tyres need to be careful. Great that today the weather has not changed-we have gathered a lot of information for analysis, and it is good. We have a good car, I was happy with. "
Andy Damerum, technical coordinator: "Good day. On the first day of the tests, you feel nervous, always a bit when the car first went to the track, but the problems were few. Mark drove a little more than 320 kilometers and we have 90% of the today programme.

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As far as I can remember, last year at this time, we were forced to skip the morning session because of fog, so that the first day was a success. Tomorrow we will work at a fast pace, we'll test the aerodynamics and rubber ".