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Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test Day 2 Quotes: Razia & Team Lotus

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Luiz Razia - Photo Credit: Team Lotus

Luiz Razia - Photo Credit: Team Lotus

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
9 Brazil Luiz Razia United Kingdom Team Lotus 1:43.944 89

 

Luiz Razia:
“This morning we did a lot of damper work for the team looking ahead to the 2012 season, with many adjustments and evaluation of each run. We also did a performance run, which was very good as I was able to pick up speed quickly on the first flying lap.”

Jody Egginton (Chief Race Engineer):
“As with all the drivers throughout the test, we spent most of the morning getting Luiz used to the car and up to speed with the Pirelli tyres. We also spent the morning running some damper work, looking at the correlation with our ride and handling models back at the factory, and also looking ahead to next year. The programme this morning was successful and we received some good feedback from that session.

“This afternoon we completed the second part of the Pirelli tyre test as part of the 2012 programme, running their three prototypes over short runs. Again, we received good feedback which we'll take back to the factory and work on analysing with that data, looking ahead to next season.

“At end of day did we did a performance run on the supersoft tyres, but unfortunately a red flag meant we lost the quickest lap of that programme. We sent Luiz out again to give him a few more laps, however the tyres were past their peak so we could not extract the times we wanted. But all in all it has been a good day and Luiz has performed very well and given valuable feedback without putting a foot wrong. A good day all round.”

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