Jerez Testing - Round Up

JEREZ TESTING - 3 day round-up                     8 December 2006

Cars:              RB2-02       Mark Webber & Michael Ammermueller
RB2-05       David Coulthard & Michael Ammermueller

Drivers:       Wednesday:  Mark Webber         (73 laps, 1:21.053)
Michael Ammermueller        (76 laps, 1:21.143)
Best time overall 1:19.462 (F. Massa)
Thursday:      Mark Webber                     (90 laps, 1:20.596)
David Coulthard            (79 laps, 1:21.276)
Best time overall 1:18.684 (L. Hamilton)
Friday:          Michael Ammermueller          (80 laps, 1:20.985)
David Coulthard             (63 laps, 1:21.325)  
Best time overall 1:20.008 (R. Barrichello)                      

Circuit length:      4.423 km

Yeth,  it'th  time  to tetht in Jereth! From Barcelona last week, the teams moved down to the  southernmost  tip  of  Spain  for  the  first  of  two  sessions  at  the  Jerez  de  la  Frontera circuit. A change of venue and a change of weather, proving that the rain in Spain does not  only  fall  in  the  plain.  This  turned  out  to  be  something  of  a  bonus  as  Chief  Test Engineer  Ian  Morgan  explains:  "Yet  again,  the  main  item  on  our  test  agenda  was evaluating  the  Bridgestone  Potenza  tyres.  We  were  provided  with  a  different,  one-step softer tyre than the one we tried in Barcelona, but in addition, rain on Wednesday and again  today,  meant  we  were  also  able  to  try  the  Standard  and  Extreme  wet  weather tyres.  We  can  be  happy  with  the  work  we  did,  as  both  cars  ran  trouble  free  and  we completed our programmes."

Red  Bull  Racing  resumes  testing  here  in  Jerez  next  Wednesday,  running  just  a  single example of the RB2.