Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team Sebring test notes
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RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING CONTINUES TEST PROGRAM WITH SATO AT SEBRING
SEBRING, Fla. (February 23, 2012) – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing resumed their pre-season IndyCar Series test program today with Takuma Sato at the 1.67-mile Sebring International Raceway course. Sato completed 65 laps under warm conditions that reached 87 degrees and was happy with the progress.
“It was a good day,” said Sato. “I was here in December for the manufacturer day with Honda but it was winter and today it was like summer. It was really warm here which made the track conditions very different. Everyone went really fast because of the temperature and the track was fast due to the rubber that was already down. We were able to do a lot of miles and quite a few various test items today. I am very pleased with the amount of different things we tried; it was a productive day. We will go through the data tonight and we have a few more things to try tomorrow. Testing here is very important for our street course set up. Before we come back here for the open test we wanted to do some other variations as well.”
The team tested with Sato on Monday and Tuesday of this week at Barber Motorsports Park and worked on the road course setup for the all new DW12 Dallara chassis for the first time. This was the first test day working on the street course setup.
“Testing went well today,” added Jay O’Connell, technical director at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. “We had a good setup on the car from the moment we unloaded and Takuma was on his game and was really flying right from the start. The street course setup is a lot softer than the road course setup and of course the Firestone tires were a bit different. We were able to build on the day of testing we had with Takuma in the Honda test car here in December and were able to draw on our team experience on street course setups to put a package together here. The track had a lot of grip. It was like testing on a street course the day after a race has been run. The data we gain here will be very important this season since there are eight street races.”
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