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Wurz ends friday role on a high

For Alex Wurz it was the last time he was active as WilliamsF1's test driver. Next year he will be racing alongside Nico Rosberg. With the fastest time on the clocks he showed what he could do.

Alex Wurz said after Friday's free practice: "It's the end, no more Friday driver role for me! I'm really pleased that I had such a good last lap. In fact, if I can squeeze some laps like that out of the car next year, where there are no mistakes and everything was fine, I will be very happy. The work we did today was good; we completed our usual tyre tests as well as some set-up comparisons and brake work. Now we need to get our heads together with our engineers to make sure we have a good package for tomorrow's qualifying and the race on Sunday."

Mark Webber commented: "We went through our usual Friday programme and I had a few laps in the afternoon session to get a feel for the car on this track. We did some wing comparisons here and there and checked a few things out so we have lots of data to look through tonight from Alex's running."

Nico Rosberg said: "This afternoon was my first outing at Interlagos. It's not too hard a track to learn and I found my rhythm pretty quickly. It's definitely a nice track, good fun and enjoyable to drive. We based today's sessions on tyre tests and we definitely achieved some good results and the Bridgestones are looking strong here. We also did some aero comparisons to see what the optimum set-up will be and have some very good results there too. It was a good job from Alex to be quickest in the second session and I hope we can keep the pace going over the weekend."

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