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'Excellent couple of weeks' for Williams
ESPNF1 Staff
February 24, 2012
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Chief operations engineer Mark Gillan says Williams has enjoyed "an excellent couple of weeks" during pre-season testing.
After a wretched 2011 season the team has been working hard to improve in 2012, with a new design team and management structure working on the FW34. The results so far have been promising, with Pastor Maldonado topping the timesheets on Thursday in Barcelona and completing over 100 laps on consecutive days.
Gillan said that Maldonado completed a "competitive race simulation" yesterday and was pleased with both the driver's performance and the data gathered by the team.
"We've had a really productive day's testing to end an excellent couple of weeks," Gillan said. "Pastor went through a competitive race simulation and both the car and he performed very well, ending the day with some long run comparisons.
"We have gathered a prodigious amount of data over more than 3500kms of testing and we will now regroup back at the factory to understand how to further improve the set-up and development direction ahead of the next Barcelona test."
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Williams was on top during Jerez last year, it meant nothing. I doubt they will be fighting competitively with the top mid-field runners.
Posted byI have a strong feeling Williams will be in better position this year. Force India maybe deluded by their last season's standings but this time Williams will give them a tough fight for 6th position. It may be difficult to catch Renault in 5th, though.