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Mark H

By Mark H

Mark H

By Mark H •

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."

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