Focus on long runs for McLaren
With heavy rain leaving the track very wet Vodafone McLaren Mercedes limited their testing programme in the morning to carrying out sign off tests on some of the new components on Heikki’s car with Pedro not leaving the garage apart from his installation lap first thing. Once the track dried out in the afternoon the focus moved to longer runs, working on general set ups for the MP4-23.
Laps run today: Total – 102 / Heikki – 49 / Pedro – 53
Kilometres covered today: Heikki – 217km approx / Pedro – 234km approx
Best lap time today: Heikki – 1m20.936 / Pedro – 1m20.883