Red Bull Racing 3 Day Barcelona Test Round-Up

BARCELONA TESTING - 3 day round-up                            2nd June 2006

Cars:                RB2-01 and RB2-05
Drivers:             Wednesday:  Christian Klien         (68 laps, 1:17.291)
Robert Doornbos     (85 laps, 1:17.345)
Best time overall 1:14.924        (Massa)

Thursday: Christian Klien          (66 laps, 1:15.871)
Robert Doornbos         (116 laps, 1:17.018)
Best time overall 1:13.471         (M Schumacher)

Friday: David Coulthard           (125 laps, 1:15.807)
Robert Doornbos            (102 laps, 1:15.508)
Best time overall 1:14.119        (M Schumacher)

Circuit length:      4.627km


Euphoria is a short lived emotion, especially in Formula 1 and a few days after the elation of a
Monaco podium, Red Bull Racing was back to the hard and harsh reality of a three day test at
Barcelona. Good to report that overall, this was a more successful test than others in the recent
past in that less problems got in the way of racking up some decent mileage.

Tester Robert Doornbos spent all three days running a Ferrari engine with new development parts
and  it  ran  through  to  the  end  of  the  session,  completing  the  required  mileage  for  sign-off.  All
drivers worked on a tyre programme: short term aimed at next week's British GP and longer term,
looking to the Canadian race in Montreal. Transmission development work was also on the agenda
and for all three days, Christian and David evaluated a new front suspension system. All in all, a
positive prelude to what is a home race at Silverstone, just a few miles from the Milton Keynes
factory.