Turkish Grand Prix - Fp1 / Fp2 Report - 06 / 05 / 2011

Team Lotus Information Number of field cameras CNN has deployed worldwide: 350 +

Dell technical support centres worldwide: 60

Year of Pirelli company's birth: 1872

Total laps

FP1CHA - 6TRU - 6

FP2KOV - 37TRU - 40

Weather

Rain (am), Overcast / dry (pm) Min/max track temperature: 12°/20°

Fastest laps

FP1

CHA 1.51.676 lap 3

TRU 1.43.986 lap 4

FP2

KOV 1.30.281 lap 19

TRU 1.29.409 lap 21

06/05/11 Runplan

Karun Chandhok (FP1) / Heikki Kovalainen (FP2)Chassis: T128-04

FP1 (CHA)

1003 - 1005: Installation (1 lap)

1005 - 1125: System checks

1125 - 1130: Run 2, 5 laps

FP2 (KOV)

1400 - 1415: Run 1, 8 laps

1415 - 1423: Adjustment - rear brake blanking

1423 - 1436: Run 2, 8 laps

1436 - 1443: Adjustments - rear brake blanking

1443 - 1455: Run 3, 7 laps

1455 - 1504: Adjustments - front suspension setting

1504 - 1511: Run 4, 4 laps

1511 - 1516: Adjustments - front wing

1516 - 1530: Run 5, 10 laps

Jarno Trulli

Chassis: T128-03

FP1

1002 - 1004: Installation (1 lap)

1004 - 1125: System checks / Adjustments: front wing, brake balance, F & R brake blanking

1125 - 1130: Run 2, 5 laps

FP2

1400 - 1414: Run 1, 9 laps

1414 - 1424: Adjustments - rear brake blanking

1424 - 1437: Run 2, 8 laps

1437 - 1445: Adjustments - F&R brake blanking, rear wing element

1445 - 1458: Run 3, 8 laps

1458 - 1509: Adjustments - front wing, rear wing element, front brake blanking

1509 - 1530: Run 4, 15 laps

Karun Chandhok: "The wet weather meant we limited the morning runplan but despite that it was good to get back out on track. I didn't get a chance to push but I'm enjoying working with the team and the more time I spend with everyone the more I can see how far this team can go. There's a great spirit across the whole garage, and back in the factory, and with the constant progression towards the midfield this is a great place to be working in."

Heikki Kovalainen (car 20): "That was a reasonable session for me - I had a DRS issue that definitely cost me some time but I think the balance was pretty good and we got through some decent setup work so I think we'll be ok tomorrow."

Jarno Trulli (car 21): "I'm pleased in general with today. It's been a positive, trouble free day and we managed to run through a number of options that give us a good direction for tomorrow and the race. We have made an adjustment to the power steering and that's definitely improved things in the cockpit for me but there's more to come from that and the whole car so I think we can go into tomorrow in good shape."

Thierry Salvi, Renault Sport F1 Support Leader: "We didn't manage to do much running in P1 this morning due to the weather so we had to work a lot harder during P2 this afternoon, especially with specific engine mapping. I hope we will have good feedback from the drivers and can take another step forwards on strategy. I think there is more to come from the whole package tomorrow so this was a pretty good start to the weekend."

Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "A pretty good day. Obviously we had limited running this morning in the wet conditions as we wanted to save tyres in case we have to use wets in the race. Unfortunately that limited the running Karun and Jarno could do but this afternoon we completed the whole program without any real problems with the performance levels we showed I think we are looking at having a pretty good weekend."