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Renault happy with first day, despite position
28 August 2008 / Results / PhotosRenault kicked off its Monza test yesterday as Nelson Piquet completed a busy day of work at the Italian circuit just north of Milan. The Brazilian finished bottom of the time sheets, but covered the most mileage of any driver.
"It was a good day's work and nice to complete so many laps," Piquet said. "It's the fastest circuit of the year and so we were trying out our low downforce package, which went well, although it always feels strange to drive with such little downforce on the car. The track was also quite green, which didn't help, but I was happy with the set-up work we completed, even though we still have a lot to learn."
Chief test engineer Christian Silk added, "A solid day's work with good reliability. We did plenty of laps to give Nelson as much running as possible with the car in low downforce trim. It's always quite a challenge here to set the car up as it is such a unique circuit, but we've colleted lots of data from the first day's running, which will give us a good base to work on from here."
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