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McLaren Paul Ricard test notes 2005-03-24
Team McLaren Mercedes continued its testing programme at the Paul Ricard circuit today with Pedro de la Rosa and Alex Wurz behind the wheel of MP4-19Bs. As rain fell mid morning, both Alex and Pedro began testing a new Michelin intermediate tyre, ...
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Team McLaren Mercedes continued its testing programme at the Paul Ricard circuit today with Pedro de la Rosa and Alex Wurz behind the wheel of MP4-19Bs.
As rain fell mid morning, both Alex and Pedro began testing a new Michelin intermediate tyre, both drivers successfully completing a number of long runs.
This afternoon as the track began to dry out, Pedro was evaluating a new front suspension package for the MP4-20, while Alex's programme was concentrating on further development of the Michelin tyres.
Alex completed 107 laps of the circuit with a fastest time of 1m04.593s, while Pedro completed 93 laps with a fastest time of 1m04.496s.
Alex Wurz:
"The weather conditions were challenging today, however during the wet weather we successfully completed intermediate tyre testing, and when the track dried out I was able to concentrate my programme on further development of the Michelin dry tyres."
Pedro de la Rosa :
"Despite the changeable weather conditions we managed to do a lot of work today on both car set-up and also intermediate tyre testing. We have completed a good two days testing programme."
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