Williams’ Valtteri Bottas has thanked his team and their power unit partner for their new car as he focuses towards the 2016 season having finished his testing duties in Barcelona.
The Finn finished his last day on a high by driving to a lap time of 1:23.261 to go fastest in the session. He will also be happy with the reliability of his FW38 having also completed over a century of laps with 108 in total.
With his testing now at a close, Bottas reflected on his development in the new car after the session: “It’s been another good day. That’s it for me now for testing before we go to Melbourne. I’m feeling prepared and good in the car. I’m glad we’ve made progress during testing and I’m sure we will do even more before Melbourne.
“That’s it now for driving from my side. There’s more to follow in the next two days as we will discover more with Felipe. Thanks to everyone in the team for all their hard work over the last two tests and thanks also to Mercedes HPP.”
Rod Nelson, the team’s Chief Test and Support Engineer, described how they used the session to prepare Bottas for the start of the season: “It’s been another good day for us. It was the last time Valtteri was due to be in the car before he gets in for the race weekend in Melbourne so it’s important that we covered a lot of the work we have had to do this week – and so far so good.
“We have done a reasonable number of laps and we did all the tests we had planned for today, so overall it’s been very successful. He is very comfortable in the car and his race engineers are tuning it around his requirements, so we are feeling positive.”
Felipe Massa now steps into the FW38 cockpit to drive for the final two days of testing before the team begins their defence of their position in the Formula One pecking order in Melbourne.
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