Renault's depute technical managing director, Rob White, has explained what is the reason for Renault's lack of reliability, and the plans on how the company aim to resolve this in 3 weeks time to be ready for testing at Bahrain.
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'Pirelli have also given details of the tyre allocation available to teams this week as they undertake their first tentative laps with radically redesigned cars.
'Besides the usual four slick tyres - supersoft, soft, medium and hard - the company is also bringing a special one-off 'winter' compound to Jerez, in order to minimise the effect of potentially low ambient temperatures on track time.
'According to Pirelli, 'This is a hard compound that has been optimised to work well even in low temperatures, reducing the risk of graining (which is a common characteristic of cold weather running)'.
'With teams allowed a total of 135 sets of tyres for testing this year, 25 sets have been set aside for Jerez. Twelve 'base' slick compounds - 'winter', hard and medium - have been selected by Pirelli in collaboration with the teams to reflect the characteristics of the Jerez track, which has a fairly rough surface and doesn't favour tyres from the softer end of the range.
Hamilton sets a 1:33.305. It's the first timed lap we've had so far after almost two and a half hours of running.. But the Mercedes has once again popped back into its garage.
Aha, good news for Ferrari fans - approximately one hour after his car came to a sudden halt after four corners, Kimi Raikkonen is coming back out...
Massa in the Ferrari set a fastest time of 1:17.879 at Jerez last year over the four days, just so we have a working marker ...
