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New aero packagae for Williams

Following last week's testing at Jerez the WilliamsF1 team will field a number of new aero parts for the FW27 in France which the team hopes will get them back on track and looking like scoring podiums again.

"The team has been testing at Jerez, in Spain, last week with Antonio Pizzonia and Nick Heidfeld in an effort to further improve the FW27 and continue tyre testing for Michelin," explained technical director Sam Michael. "For Magny-Cours, we will have some aerodynamic improvements that are part of our on-going development programme to bring performance to the car. Some parts are more obvious, some not."

"Magny-Cours has three high speed areas, the first section of the lap and the two chicanes, as well as some slow and medium speed corners," he noted. "It is traditionally a very smooth circuit which has an interesting end to the lap because the track creates a good line into the pit lane. This means that time lost in the pit lane is low. The tarmac at Magny-Cours is more dependent on temperature than normal which means lap times vary significantly during the day."

"Strategy will be interesting in Magny-Cours because of the pit lane time and typically high tyre degradation that we see at Magny-Cours," Michael concluded.

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