Tests Silverstone Opciones

[Raquel]

Olé qué bien!! Ya tenemos a nuestro Pedrito corriendo otra vez

Por cierto lo de las preguntas me ha hecho mucha gracia: resulta que a Pedro le gusta Phill Colins y yo no lo sabía, pero acerté pues le dediqué "Somewhere" antes de la carrera de Bahrein. Me alegro

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TEAM McLAREN MERCEDES TESTING REPORT - DAY 1, SILVERSTONE
Date: Tuesday, September 13 2005
Location Silverstone circuit, UK
Drivers: Alex Wurz and Pedro de la Rosa
Weather: Sunny with cloud, Track temperature 20 degrees Celsius, Air temperature 23 degrees Celsius
Laps run:
157
Kilometres covered:
Best lap time of the day: Fernando Alonso, Renault, 1m17.104s
Duration of test: Two days

The Team McLaren Mercedes team began a two day test at Silverstone today, with Alex Wurz and Pedro de la Rosa both present at the Northamptonshire circuit.

Alex was behind the wheel of an MP4-20. This morning he was working on suspension development and set-up work, and this afternoon focused his programme on testing the prime and option Michelin tyres for the forthcoming Japanese Grand Prix.

Alex completed his programme with no problems and was second fastest man on the circuit with a time of 1m17.109s. He completed 68 laps.

Pedro was also behind the wheel of an MP4-20 which was running for the first time with a Mercedes-Benz V8 engine. Pedro and the test team made steady progress throughout the day, with long breaks in between running as the engineers analysed the data and made software changes. Pedro will continue the programme tomorrow. Pedro completed 38 laps of the circuit with a best time of 1m24.477s.