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Heidfeld hopes F1.08 updates will work
18 April 2008The BMW Sauber F1 team will travel to Spain next week for the first European round on the 2008 Formula 1 calendar. German driver Nick Heidfeld is interested to see how strong the team will be in Barcelona as every team will come with extra new components to compete at the Spanish Grand Prix.
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During the brief spring break all the teams have been upgrading their cars in preparation for the European curtain-raiser in Barcelona on 27th April. The Spanish Grand Prix on the impressive, but unforgiving, Circuit de Catalunya could prompt a reappraisal of where the teams stand relative to one another.
Looking ahead of next week's race Heidfeld is interested to see where everyone will be standing after the three-week break. "The question everybody wants to hear the answer to is: how well are the new components, with which we've modified the BMW Sauber F1.08 since the initial overseas races, going to work?" Heidfeld wonders. "I'm also very keen to see whether we have made more progress with our new developments than the competition. At any rate, I'm confident that we will be just as strong as in Australia, Malaysia and Bahrain."
Looking ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend Heidfeld commented: "The Spanish Grand Prix has its own special ambience because the stands are now regularly packed to the rafters. The fans ensure a brilliant atmosphere, which we as drivers pick up on to some extent as well.
"Although I have already clocked up hundreds of race and test laps on the Circuit de Catalunya, boredom just doesn't come into it. It has often been the case that a set-up determined during testing was no longer the right one for the race weekend. That could be due to the weather or to the condition of the track, which naturally accumulates much more rubber deposits over a grand prix weekend than during testing."
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