Valencia Test Day Two Report

3rd February 2010

Date           Tuesday 2 February  
Track    Circuito de la Comunidad Valenciana Ricardo
Tormo 
Driver   Nico Rosberg  

No of Laps         119 laps   
Best Lap Time  01:12.899  
Kilometres Covered 482km  
Track Length  4.051km 

Weather    Fine  
Ambient Temperature Maximum 13°C 
Track Temperature  Maximum 19°C
 
Nico Rosberg was back at the wheel of the MGP W01 car today for his first
full day of testing for the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team. Another fine and dry
day in Valencia provided ideal winter testing conditions and enabled the
team to successfully work through today's programme.

After completing the initial set-up work with the MGP W01 yesterday morning,
Nico had a productive day focusing on long runs which saw him cover a race
distance mileage over the course of the day. Although still not entirely
comfortable with his position in the car, Nico completed 119 laps today,
setting a fastest lap time of 01:12.899.

Michael Schumacher will take over from Nico tomorrow for the third and final
day of this week's test.

Nico Rosberg: "I'm very pleased with our first full day of testing and we
were really able to get into the programme and achieve some good work today.
We successfully completed a race distance on the car's second day of running
and I'm quite happy with how the car felt on the longer runs with heavy
fuel. It felt like the same car, just a little bit slower, but the balance
was good. We've still got some work to do on my position in the car as I
dropped down by 1.5cm during the day which explains why the visibility got a
little difficult towards the end but that's something we can fix before the
next test. Overall it's been a positive start to our pre-season testing and
I'm enjoying working with the team and feeling very comfortable here."

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