CLARK AND NASIR ARE SHOWING THEIR EXCITEMENT AS THE 2019 F1 SEASON  TESTING SESSIONS BEGIN BUT THE HOST ALREADY SUSPECTS SOME FUNNY BUSINESS AT MERCEDES!

HERE IS AN UPDATE FROM ROKiT WILLIAMS RACING…

Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer: It was a good day of testing with George driving the car. We completed 119 laps without any significant reliability issues, so we achieved the entire programme that we had planned from the start of the day. We completed a mixture of data gathering and performance running at low and high fuel on a range of different tyre compounds. It is early days with our familiarisation with the car, so there is a lot of work to do to understand what we have got and the directions that we need to take.

We have already identified some opportunities though, and we will keep pushing through the remainder of the week to prepare ourselves for Australia. Well done to the team, a great job by everybody to get a car that can do the laps without incident to make a solid start to the second test.

George Russell: It was a good day. Our plan was to get as many laps on the board, make sure we had no issues and that’s exactly what we did. We have learnt so much about the car on lower fuel and higher fuel which gives us a good indication moving forward into the next few days. All in all, it was a huge relief to have a day like today and we completed our test plan as intended.

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