Force India Barcelona testing - Day 3 report

Force India press release

Barcelona Test Report, 23 February 2012

Paul di Resta, Sahara Force India Formula One Team

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Paul Di Resta returned to the cockpit of the VJM05 today as Sahara Force India completed a third day of work in Barcelona.

Day Three Stats
Chassis: VJM05-02
Laps: 83
Mileage: 386 km
Fastest lap: 1:25.646

Paul Di Resta:

“Quite an intense day and a very busy afternoon, but the main thing is that we achieved the objectives for the day. There will be a lot of analysing tonight to see what we can learn, especially trying to understand the data from the long runs this afternoon. Once we’ve been through the numbers, it should give us a direction for tomorrow. As I said in Jerez, it’s nice to have a car with such a good baseline because it makes it easier to experiment with the set-up and that’s what we’re trying to do at the moment.”

Jakob Andreasen, Chief Engineer

“After the install lap we went straight into the aero programme with some sweeps around the front of the car. We lost some time with a bodywork issue late in the morning, but the afternoon proved more productive and we made up for the time we lost with a revised programme. We ran with the hard and medium compound tyres and completed the short and long runs we had planned, whilst also making numerous changes to the mechanical and aero balance of the car. It was an excellent effort from the team at the track to come away with all the long run data we needed and that has set us up nicely for our final day of work tomorrow.”