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Williams gets to grips with changing conditions

Williams spent Friday getting to grips with the changeable conditions at Suzuka. Wurz did most of the team's running as usual finishing 17th while Webber and Rosberg were 14th and 15th respectively.

"We had variable conditions today at Suzuka that meant we had to change our planned programme quite a bit," said WilliamsF1 technical director Sam Michael. "We did some work on the wet set-up, but conditions were really intermediate for most of the afternoon. In the last ten minutes of the second session, the track was ok for dry tyres. We sent Alex out to check both tyre compounds and the race cars did a run on dry tyres as well. The sessions today have given us some good data that we will work through tonight in order to make our decision in preparation for tomorrow's qualifying."

Mark Webber commented, "The weather in practice today was changeable, but at least we were able to get a few laps in dry conditions so we have more information to go through tonight. It won't be easy to make the tyre decision, but it's the same for everyone. It looks like we have some work to do on our pace, but we worked our way through the entire programme so we're happy."

Nico Rosberg added, "Suzuka is a great circuit, no doubt about it! It's not easy to learn, I must say, but the balance of the car to start with was already quite good and I felt comfortable from the beginning. It all went quite well today; although it's been a bit more difficult for me to learn all that I wanted to because I didn't get that many laps on a dry track."

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