Kubica: Satisfied despite 'some understeer'
Credit: PlanetF1.com (www.planetf1.com)
With 91 laps under his belt on Saturday, Robert Kubica was satisfied with his second day of running on the 2011 Pirelli tyres.
The Renault driver was back in action at the Yas Marina circuit on Saturday, for the second and final day of the Pirelli test.
Completing 91 laps with a best time of 1::41.614, Kubica was not able to match his fastest lap from Day One, however, insisted he had no complaints.
"It has been quite a productive day and it's good to complete so many laps on the new tyres," said the Renault driver. "Like yesterday we ran with both compounds and collected a lot of data, which will be useful for us and for Pirelli as well.
"Overall it has been a positive couple of days and now we have to try and extract as many conclusions as we can from the data. My initial feeling is good and it seemed that the tyres got better as the track conditions improved throughout the day."
However, Renault's chief engineer Alan Permane revealed that Kubica suffered with a bit of understeer, the cause of which Renault were not able to get a handle on.
"We've had a second useful day on the Pirelli tyres and managed to complete medium length runs on both the soft and medium compounds without any significant issues. This allowed us to start understanding the tyre characteristics and assess the degradation rates," he said.
"We struggled with some understeer today, which we never totally got rid of, so we still need to try and understand that."
Credit: PlanetF1.com (www.planetf1.com)
No comments:
Post a Comment