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Williams looks handy at Silverstone

The WilliamsF1 team looked like it should have good pace this weekend at Silverstone after tester Alex Wurz finished the day third fastest. Mark Webber finish ninth and Robserg 19th but Wurz was tasked with the majority of the work covering 56 laps.

"It was a good first day on all three cars and we worked through various set-up options we could use for the race here and we now have the data to go through," said technical director Sam Michael. "Bridgestone have brought two good tyres here once again and we have a reasonable indication of which way we will go on tyre compound - although we will look at the data later and do some more checks before we make a final decision. On Alex's car we followed a standard routine of cooling, brakes and normal long runs for tyre degradation and encountered no problems at all."

Rosberg commented, "It has been very difficult to set up the car today, because track conditions are pretty different from our last test here. The track was quite green and it was very windy which affected the car's behaviour a lot. By the end of the day though, it was going much better having tried a few options that improved the car, so I am quite happy about our progress today."

Mark Webber added, "It was a pretty uneventful day and we managed to work through everything we needed to. Obviously the track is very different from when we were here for the test, but that's the same for everybody, so we'll work on that tonight. The tyre comparison with Alex went well and we now have some good data. Today wasn't so bad actually, it all went ok. Hopefully, we'll continue to enjoy the good weather tomorrow and we'll keep working our way towards the front."

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