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Positive early pace for Williams

Williams showed good early pace at Shanghai with third driver Wuz setting the pace in both practice sessions and Mark Webber finishing the second session in sixth.

"We ran a largely normal Friday programme except for compensating for the adverse weather in the second session," said technical director Sam Michael. "Alex stuck to plan checking temperatures and tyres. All the new parts on the car are working well and we have quite a bit of data now to make our tyre choice. Nico did more running than usual as he hasn't driven here before. Unfortunately on Mark's car we had a hydraulic leak from the fuel flap, so we will attend to this tonight."

Mark Webber commented, "It was obviously a pretty short day for me! We only had two runs planned anyway, but we couldn't get out for the second run because we had a hydraulic fluid leak. It didn't really cost us a huge amount and we still have plenty of work to do tonight to check how we can improve for tomorrow. The drizzly weather today also meant the track wasn't in its best condition, so I'm quite happy to pick up some additional running tomorrow."

Nico Rosberg added, "It was interesting out there, especially because of the weather conditions and also because I was learning the track as it is my first time racing here - it's a nice track, really good fun. Tyre choice is going to be quite tough and we will have to study everything we have learnt today to see which way we will go."

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