Installation lap for Massa at 10.45
Then he covered a distance of about 40 km before the lunch break. The problem is the extremely cold weather, only the inters can be used. In the afternoon he will continue to work on the reliability.
Now from gazzetta
A temp of ca 10 C is needed to mount dry tyres (at the moment it's -1).
They confirm what Tuttosport wrote, everything was OK after the debut. But the best news comes from the engine, which is only at 80-85% of its potential. The V8 used by Schumi on Monday was tested on the bench and it reached 22000 rpm without any problem (in fact Todt told gaz before Christmas that " the new engine revs at 19000 for 2000 km"; i thought he wanted to exaggerate a bit to explain that the V8 is reliable, but maybe it really makes 19000 for 2000 km)
A new front wing has been tested in the wind tunnel and for a matter of time it wasn't available this week.
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