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Team Pezzarinho Pre-Season Testing Round Up
With Jerez's pre-season testing already concluded, here is the thoughts and reactions from our team.
Adrian Boddington
"It has been a very interesting and very productive couple of days for us here in Jerez. Despite giving the car some mileage on Monday, there were clearly still some issues to contend with on Tuesday which restricted our running to just 8 laps. Everyone within the team remained positive however - this is after all the reason we come testing ahead of the season itself.
"We had hoped to give Vettel the chance to take over proceedings today but with our troubled first day, we opted instead to keep Alonso behind the wheel and get some comparative data. We focused on learning more about the TP-04 rather than the laptimes, and feel in that regard that we were extremely successful. Stealing the fastest time sends a message, but we have our feet firmly grounded. This is testing and we don't know the programs that our rivals were running. We hope we can maintain an advantage in Australia, but nothing is certain within Formula B Spec.
"On the other side of that coin, I really hope that Season 4 proves Michael Silver's concerns to be false. We hold our competitors with the utmost respect and we know for certain that they will all be doing everything in their power to claim the Championships for themselves."
Fernando Alonso
"There was a huge improvement made between days 1 and 2. The engineers all worked hard on the issues we saw on day 1 and the car was feeling amazing on the second day. Even last year we did not have this same feeling within the car, so everyone is feeling good ahead of Australia. There is still a lot of work to do."
Sebastian Vettel
"Obviously on a personal level I am disappointed to only get half a day of installation runs, but I have seen in Fernando's hands just what this car is capable of doing. I've learnt a lot just from being around a team that is new to me, and for sure I am excited about getting into the season properly and behind the wheel more regularly. There are still a lot of grey areas for us to expand on so I am eager to get to Australia now and see what Formula B Spec has in store."
With Jerez's pre-season testing already concluded, here is the thoughts and reactions from our team.
Adrian Boddington
"It has been a very interesting and very productive couple of days for us here in Jerez. Despite giving the car some mileage on Monday, there were clearly still some issues to contend with on Tuesday which restricted our running to just 8 laps. Everyone within the team remained positive however - this is after all the reason we come testing ahead of the season itself.
"We had hoped to give Vettel the chance to take over proceedings today but with our troubled first day, we opted instead to keep Alonso behind the wheel and get some comparative data. We focused on learning more about the TP-04 rather than the laptimes, and feel in that regard that we were extremely successful. Stealing the fastest time sends a message, but we have our feet firmly grounded. This is testing and we don't know the programs that our rivals were running. We hope we can maintain an advantage in Australia, but nothing is certain within Formula B Spec.
"On the other side of that coin, I really hope that Season 4 proves Michael Silver's concerns to be false. We hold our competitors with the utmost respect and we know for certain that they will all be doing everything in their power to claim the Championships for themselves."
Fernando Alonso
"There was a huge improvement made between days 1 and 2. The engineers all worked hard on the issues we saw on day 1 and the car was feeling amazing on the second day. Even last year we did not have this same feeling within the car, so everyone is feeling good ahead of Australia. There is still a lot of work to do."
Sebastian Vettel
"Obviously on a personal level I am disappointed to only get half a day of installation runs, but I have seen in Fernando's hands just what this car is capable of doing. I've learnt a lot just from being around a team that is new to me, and for sure I am excited about getting into the season properly and behind the wheel more regularly. There are still a lot of grey areas for us to expand on so I am eager to get to Australia now and see what Formula B Spec has in store."