Wednesday 17 February 2010

New chassis for Massa in Jerez

Jerez de la Frontera, 17 February 2010 – At 9am the third test session with the Formula 1 Championship in sight, with the first GP held on 14 March in Bahrain, was started this morning in Jerez.

The seven teams, which took part in the tests in Valencia turned into ten last week, while today there are eleven, including also Lotus. Now there are only two teams missing: Campos Meta and USF1 – while there are pessimistic rumours about their near future.

Felipe Massa is the driver on the track today for the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. The Brazilian driver went out for the installation lap at 9:02am, while the track was still wet from the rain last night.

The bad weather might stay the main protagonist here during the tests in Jerez and also today’s forecast is not really encouraging. Therefore Felipe’s programme for today has to be adjusted to the track conditions. For this third test session the team set up the F10’s second chassis with the number 282. The car doesn’t sport any major updates compared to last week: just some minor aerodynamic and mechanical updates for these days, while the main novelties will be used next week during the tests in Barcelona.

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