Williams to stay another day at Monza
Nico Rosberg turned up for testing duties today only to be met by an inch of rain water on track. Following heavy rain overnight, the deluge continued well into the morning, eating into everyone's valuable track time at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza today.
The waters finally cleared over lunch, allowing the teams a two hour window of track time this afternoon but not enough time for the majority to complete their planned programmes. As such, most of the eleven teams have extended their test and will return to the circuit tomorrow for hopefully a dry day of running.
Nico managed to bank 45 laps today while working through set-up options for the Italian Grand Prix next weekend and recorded the 7th quickest time of the session with a 1:24.984.
Dickie Stanford, Test Team Manager, Williams F1: "After a very heavy downpour which lasted for about two and a half hours this morning, the weather cleared at lunchtime leaving blue skies and temperatures reaching 25°C. During the limited window of running the weather afforded us, we continued with our set-up work prior to the race here with Nico in the car. Due to the poor weather conditions, we'll be staying another day with the majority of the other teams in order to finish our programme."
