Rosberg reveals Merc W02 teething problems
Nico Rosberg has confirmed that Mercedes GP are having a few teething problems with both their KERS and moveable rear wing.
Rosberg was in action at Valencia on Wednesday for the second day of pre-season testing, putting Merc GP's new W02 through its paces.
However, the German, who suffered a hydraulic problem on Tuesday forcing him to stop out on track, yet again encountered problems, this time with his KERS and moveable rear wing.
Rosberg completed 69 laps with a best time of 1:14.645, which put him 1.338s down on the P1 time.
"The feeling remains that I feel very comfortable in the car, which is great - straight away. And that is a nice thing to have. But then today to really push there were a few things that we need to sort out," said the German.
"All of the main systems like KERS and the main wing often were not working or we did not have them on, and that then has a big impact on lap time - and that is lap time that we will find in the next few days or weeks.
"And other than that, there were a few things like with braking with KERS that you need to learn. You need to be confident on the brakes and with the KERS coming in. It was often a bit difficult with the confidence of the braking, and it is just a matter of getting used to it."
However, getting the devices to work properly wasn't the only issue facing Rosberg as he also had to figure out which buttons to push and when, a situation that wasn't helped by their issues.
"I learned how to handle the KERS for example with all the buttons and systems, it is very complicated for sure and it is going to take some time to get used to it.
"So that was quite a challenge today, also because we had some issues with it, so even out on track it was doing some strange things sometimes. It will be easy to sort them out for sure but today it wasn't working 100 percent."
Credit: PlanetF1.com (www.planetf1.com)
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