Italian Gp Fp1 & Fp2

[Mark H]

Team Lotus Information    

Maximum width of a 2011 F1 car: 1800mm

Number of G20 governments using Dell equipment: All 20

Amount of the world's power created by GE power generation equipment:25% 

 

Weather

 

Sun

Min / max air temperature: 21° / 31°

Min / max track temperature: 22° / 41°

 

Fastest laps / positions    

FP1KOV 19th, 1.29.539 (lap 8) / CHA 20th, 1.30.148 (lap 18)

FP2TRU 18th 1.28.559 (lap 22) / KOV 19th, 1.28.605 (lap 25)     

 

Total laps    

FP1KOV: 10 / CHA: 19

FP2TRU: 32 / KOV: 32                 

 

Runplan

FP1: Karun Chandhok

FP2: Jarno Trulli

Chassis: T128-03 

FP1: Karun Chandhok

0959 - 1002: Installation, 1 lap

1002 - 1027: System checks, front wing flap & brake blanking adjusted

1027 - 1029: Run 2, 1 lap

1029 - 1038: System checks, front wing flap, brake balance, brake blanking

1038 - 1050: Run 3, 7 laps

1050 - 1107: Adjustments - brake blanking

1107 - 1124: Run 4, 10 laps

 

FP2: Jarno Trulli

1400 - 1409: Run 1, 5 laps

1409 - 1424: Adjustments - front wing flap / rear ride height

1424 - 1439: Run 2, 8 laps

1439 - 1448: Adjustments - front wing flap, front torsion bar

1448 - 1456: Run 3, 4 laps

1456 - 1501: Adjustments - front wing flap

1501 - 1511: Run 4, 6 laps

1511 - 1517: Adjustments - rear wing / long run fuel

1517 - 1533: Run 5, 9 laps

 

Runplan

Heikki Kovalainen

Chassis: T128-04   

FP1

0959 - 1002: Installation, 1 lap

1002 - 1031 5601: System checks, front wing, brake balance

1031 - 1045: Run 2, 8 laps

1045 - 1055: Adjustments: rear wing

1055 - 1056: Run 3, 1 lap: gearbox issue ends session

 

FP2

1400 - 1412: Run 1, 8 laps

1412 - 1428: Adjustments - front wing, rear ride height

1428 - 1446: Run 2, 11 laps

1446 - 1452: Adjustments - front wing flap

1452 - 1504: Run 3, 7 laps

1504 - 1515: Adjustments - front wing flap / long run fuel

1515 - 1526: Run 4, 6 laps

 

Karun Chandhok, Chassis T128-03 (FP1): "I'm pretty pleased with the performance this morning. The car felt OK from the first laps and it was good to get some more time under my belt in the cockpit. Friday mornings are always pretty limited running, particularly when the track's got that light covering of dust on it, but today I was focusing on some aero evaluation and we got through that program so I think I did ok today."

 

Heikki Kovalainen, Car 20 - Chassis T128-04: "That wasn't too bad but we can definitely improve. This morning's session was brought to an early end with a sensor issue on the gearbox and I was given the instruction to pull over when the engine temperatures started rising.This afternoon we worked on both sets of tyres and I think the softs are ok but we weren't really able to get the best out the mediums which gave us some areas to work on tonight on improving overall grip."

 

Jarno Trulli, Car 21 - Chassis T128-03: "That was a trouble free Friday afternoon for me but honestly I'm not all that happy with the balance of the car at the moment. There's quite a lot of understeer on turn-in and through the exit of the corners and we need to work on dialling that out to find more speed. There's definitely more to come and we've shown all season we can take good steps forward from Friday to Saturday, so I think we'll be ok tomorrow."

 

Thierry Salvi, Renault Sport F1 Support Leader: "This morning we worked with Karun on engine mapping and he did a good job for us collecting a lot of data we can use on both race cars this weekend.The chassis he was in, which reverted to Jarno for the afternoon session, completed decent mileage throughout both sessions, but this afternoon we struggled a bit with Jarno in the car, and we need to spend some time this evening to make sure we can progress for FP3 and qualifying."

 

Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "That was a bit of a difficult Friday for us.  It started well this morning with Karun doing a good job running through an aero evaluation program and it was good for him to have a full session in the dry. For the race drivers, the main problem today was getting heat into the harder tyres and I think we may find that improves with increasing the downforce levels tomorrow. Both Jarno and Heikki were reporting that they could not find enough grip and as that is linked to both tyre performance and the downforce package the goal is to solve that for tomorrow and unlock the speed we know is in the car for qualifying."

 

Riad Asmat, Group CEO: "That was not one of our best Fridays. Despite completing a pretty decent number of laps we struggled to find grip on both cars all day so the main challenge now is for the engineers to work through the data that we have accumulated and improve our speed tomorrow. We know we can increase performance levels in all areas for FP3, qualifying and the race, and that is the focus now for the remaining sessions."

 

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