The development race is well and truly on with a number of teams flying in new aero components to fit to the cars. Williams Toyota is no exception as Nico Rosberg’s FW31 featured developments for the opening day of the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, something team-mate Kazuki Nakajima has to wait until the Spanish Grand Prix for.Rosberg topped the timesheets in the second practice session this afternoon with a best time of 1:33.339 seconds, two-tenths clear of his nearest challenger.
"You can only ever compare your performance to other race weekends so, relatively, I think we are looking okay," the German racer said. "We’ve done a lot of set-up work today and I am quite happy with everything so we’ve made good progress."
“The team brought some new parts to Bahrain and they seem to be working well so thanks to our aero guys for their continuing hard work in developing the car."
Topping the timesheets is nothing new for Rosberg this year, but to date the race results have been harder to come by. This is something that he feels will change this weekend.
"I am really convinced that we will be able to do something positive at this race," he continued, "and to get the points that the car is worth."
Team-mate Kazuki Nakajima lapped just over half a second shy of Rosberg and will be looking at the data to see where he can make gain tomorrow.
"Today didn’t go too badly but we are lacking some pace compared to Nico," the Japanese racer admitted. "I’ll now de-brief with my engineers to try to find out where I’m losing that time so I can make it up in tomorrow’s qualifying."
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