Zoom Nakajima set for his second Grand Prix start

The Williams Toyota team today finished its latest pre-season tests ahead of the new season with Kazuki Nakajima heading the timesheets for the team. The Grove-based squad will be encouraged to see Nakajima set the pace today with a best lap of 1:22.153s.

Nico Rosberg was fifth fastest overall, just 0.095s shy of team-mate Nakajima while the team again ran new signing Nico Hulkenberg who was slowest today, just over two seconds off the ultimate pace.

Kazuki Nakajima
"Initially it was a bit of a difficult test because of the weather but it was good for me to get some experience in wet conditions. The car is feeling good, but we couldn’t do as much work with it as we wanted to because of the bad weather. It was still a good week for us though overall."

Nico Rosberg
"We’ve had plenty of running in the wet this week and we looked pretty good, which was positive. It wasn’t that easy to drive in the conditions, it’s hard to keep the tyres in the working window, especially without traction control, so you’re always quite on the limit. The last day was dry and so we managed to cover a lot of laps with no problems at all. Over the three days, we got some important reliability issues sorted out. We seem to be progressing well with the new car and I am happy with the improvements we’re making."

Sam Michael, Technical Director
"This week we continued our winter test programme at the Barcelona circuit. Although the first two days were wet, the final day was predominantly dry and that allowed us to work on chassis set-up. All three drivers were on hand and the mileage they covered was important for us to get race signoff before the Australian Grand Prix."

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Source: Williams Toyota