BARCELONA TEST - DAY THREE

Date Saturday 27 February 2010
Track Circuit de Catalunya
Driver Nico Rosberg

No of Laps 128 laps
Best Lap Time 1:20.686
Kilometres Covered 596 kms
Track Length 4.655 kms

Weather Overcast with intermittent rain showers
Ambient Temperature Maximum 14°C
Track Temperature Maximum 16°C

Nico Rosberg completed the third day of testing for the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona today to bring his pre-season testing programme to its conclusion.

Nico spent the morning working on qualifying simulations and developing the car set-up before completing a race simulation exercise in the afternoon. Despite intermittent rain showers in the late morning and early afternoon, Nico was able to complete almost 600kms over 128 laps as he set the fastest time of the day, a 1:20.686, during the driest period this morning.

Michael Schumacher will take over the MGP W01 tomorrow for the fourth and final day of the test.

Nico Rosberg: "We had a good day today and made some significant progress in terms of set-up which was nice to see. We hadn't got the most out of the car in terms of performance over the last couple of days, but we made a step in the right direction today. We went through some big changes this morning step by step and found some good improvements. The longer runs this afternoon were interesting. We learnt a lot as there were other cars running similar programmes at the same time so we were able to do some comparisons. There is still plenty of room to improve but overall we're looking in pretty good shape."

TIMES (All timings are unofficial)

Pos Driver Car Time Laps
1. Nico Rosberg MERCEDES GP PETRONAS 1:20.686 128
2. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso 1:21.413 106
3. Jenson Button Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1:21.450 105
4. Rubens Barrichello Williams 1:21.975 101
5. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:22.344 115
6. Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:22.523 68
7. Adrian Sutil Force India 1:22.606 61
8. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:23.123 51
9. Jarno Trulli Lotus 1:25.059 102
10. Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber 1:26.216 105
11. Timo Glock Virgin Racing 1:26.305 31

Wolfgang Schattling: Tel. +49 711 178 4008, E: wolfgang.schattling@daimler.com

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