FW: BMW WilliamsF1 Team - Barcelona Test Summary
BARCELONA TEST -- 13th-17th January 2003
Summary:
The BMW WilliamsF1 Team has finished a week long test at
the Circuit de
Catalunya in Barcelona. ÝThe team has covered plenty of
ground in preparation
for the launch of the FW25, which is now two weeks away on
the 31st January.
Drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher joined test
team driver Marc
GenÈ on his home track alongside Olivier Beretta who was
also driving at the test
for the team. Olivier Beretta deputised for Ralf
Schumacher who rested a back
condition as a precautionary measure. Ralf's condition is
being assessed daily
but is not a cause for concern and he is expected to return
to testing duty shortly.
Tim Newton (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
"It has been a productive week for the test team in
Barcelona. Despite the cold
weather the conditions have been constant which has
provided a good platform to
assess various tyres. We have also made progress with the
intermediate chassis
FW24D and are on course to meet our objectives for the
introduction of the FW25
at the end of the month."
Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
"We have experienced an all round successful test. The team
completed a huge
programme in terms of engine and chassis development as
well as tyre testing.
Altogether we achieved a mileage of 3572 km this week in
Barcelona.
In view of the proposals announced by the FIA on Wednesday
we modified our
programme from Thursday onwards to include manual starts."
* The BMW WilliamsF1 Team will be running a full test
schedule next week 19th-
24th January at Valencia.
Barcelona daily best times (number of laps), best lap time
of the day in bold:
Driver/Car Tyre 13.01.03 14.01.03
15.01.03 16.01.03 17.01.03
David Coulthard M - 1:15.271
1:15.276 1:15.390 -
West McLaren Mercedes 55
40 53
Alex Wurz M - 1:16.976
1:15.513 1:17.485 -
West McLaren Mercedes 53
66 95
Kimi Raikkonen M - -
1:16.164 1:15.999 -
West McLaren Mercedes
38 65
Juan Pablo Montoya M 1:17.791 1:16.821
1:17.277 1:16.153 1:17.875
BMW WilliamsF1 Team 46 40
76 66 44
Marc GenÈ M 1:18.395 1:16.570
1:17.114 1:17.581 1:17.296
BMW WilliamsF1 Team 63 70
68 69 103
Olivier Panis B - 1:17.071
1:16.886 1:16.388 -
PanasonicToyota Racing 35
33 47
Heinz-Harald Frenzten B 1:18.710 1:17.895
1:16.658 - -
Sauber Petronas 37 69
75
Nick Heidfeld B 1:18.896 1:16.687
1:17.775
Sauber Petronas 62 83
30
Fernando Alonso M - -
1:20.513 1:17.857 1:16.915
Mild Seven Renault F1
51 80
Cristano Da Matta B - 1:19.081
1:18.118 1:17.001 -
PanasonicToyota Racing 38
96 59
Anthony Davidson B - -
1:17.630 -
Lucky Strike BAR Honda
27
Takuma Sato B -
- 1:17.757
Lucky Strike BAR Honda
44
Jenson Button B - -
1:18.375 - -
Lucky Strike BAR Honda
31
Mark Webber M - -
1:18.718 - -
Jaguar Racing
71
Antonio Pizzonia M - -
1:18.815 1:18.723
Jaguar Racing
52 85
Olivier Beretta M - 1:19.155
1:19.395 - -
BMW WilliamsF1 Team 53
48
Ralf Schumacher M 1:19.650 - -
- -
BMW WilliamsF1 Team 5
Allan McNish B - -
1:20.206 -
Lucky Strike BAR Honda
6
Jarno Trulli M - -
1:21.201 1:20.770 1:18.899
Mild Seven Renault F1
24 77 62
