Virgin covers even less mileage on third day
After suffering a front wing failure on Thursday morning, Virgin Racing had to miss out on a significant amount of running after having to wait for a new modified wing to arrive from their UK base. And with weather only further complicating everything, Lucas di Grassi only managed to cover 8 laps, with a best time of 1:37.107, about 18 seconds off the fastest lap of the day.
Nick Wirth, Technical Director, commented, "Once again, despite working round the clock to remedy yesterday's problem, we not only missed the opportunity for dry running this morning, but it was so wet this afternoon that we lost a lot of running when we were finally able to get going. This was particularly annoying given the great efforts to design and manufacture new parts, R&D test them and get them out to the circuit within a 24-hour period. The harder you work, the luckier you get and with the hours we are putting in at the moment we are all hoping that our fortunes will change soon.
"The drivers remain positive, the data we are gathering is as expected and we're all keeping our heads down and just getting on with what we need to do at this early stage in our development."
