Pastor Maldonado managed to set the fastest lap time at Circuit de Catalunya today, as the ten drivers present completed the third test day here.
Williams is looking for every single hundred of a tenth this season, in order to put last years disaster behind them. And though testing times doesn´t prove anything, especially this early, it could look like the Grove-based team have something up their sleeve.
Pastor Maldonado set the fastest laptime today, and it was done on a early run. His 1:22.391 was not only fastest so far at Catalunya, but he alsomanaged to stay fastest all day. Second placed Michael Schumacher was a full second behind the Venezuelean driver.
Kamui Kobayashi came third in the Sauber, a good two tenths behind Schumacher, and fourth was Jenson Button on the McLaren Mercedes MP4-27. Jean-Eric Vergne came fifth for Toro Rosso, Felipe Massa sixth for Ferrari, Mark Webber seventh for Red Bull, in the exact same time as Massa, Paul Di Resta eighth for Force India and finally Timo Glock ninth and Vitaly Petrov for Marussia and Caterham respectively.
Maldonado said: “It was a good day today, as we completed all of our planned programme with no issues. We have put more mileage on the car which is great for everyone here and back at the factory as we now have a lot more data to analyse. The car is progressing well and I feel everything is going in the right direction.”
