17/05/2006
NEWS STORY
Jenson Button topped the timesheets at Vallelunga today, as Honda and williamsF1 continued their Monaco preparations at the Italian track.
Button, taking over from James Rossiter, spent his early runs acclimatising to the track before beginning a tyre programme, successfully completing his full morning schedule over 81 laps. He continued to run through the tyre programme during the afternoon, completing a further 95 laps taking his overall total for the day to 176 laps.
Anthony Davidson spent the morning session working through an aero evaluation, completing 66 laps. He also worked on a tyre programme in the afternoon looking at various options for the forthcoming races, alongside a chassis set-up programme. The Englishman completed a total of 146 laps.
Rubens Barrichello will join the team tomorrow for the final day, taking over from Davidson.
WilliamsF1 had Mark Webber on duty, along with Alexander Wurz.
"Alex completed some tyre warm up tests and set-up changes this morning," revealed test team manager, Mike Condliffe, "while Mark concentrated on set-up work.
"The rest of the day was spent working through a tyre test to select the compounds for the Monaco race. Conditions today were ideal, dry with very little wind. Narain (Karthikeyan) will be back in the car tomorrow to partner Mark."