Stefano Coletti satisfied with his performance at Abu Dhabi – Formula 1 news
Stefano Coletti says he is happy with his performance on the second day of the Young Driver Test.
Coletti is driving for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Abu Dhabi and showed improvement on the second day of testing. He ended the morning session setting the seventh quickest time improving on his best time from Tuesday by three quarters of a second.
The GP2 race winner used Pirelli’s 2011 soft compound rubber drove well but admitted that he missed a trick by not using the DRS well enough to get the best results from it.
“We're happy,” Coletti told Autosport.com. “On my best lap, I missed the DRS on one of the long straights, so we lost a bit of time there, but we did what we had to do. We came here for testing - not performance. It was nice to be part of the development
of an F1 team and it was good running. I could feel the car more and I was getting better.”
“We did a lot of testing again on the aero like we did on the first day, so I did a few stints with different things on the car. Then I did a long run at the end of the morning,” he said.
The 22-year-old showed his delight at using the Formula 1 machinery by saying that he could not wait to get back into the car as soon as possible, after he had to hand over his car to Kevin Ceccon for the afternoon session.
He also mentioned how the experience was good and he has learnt quite a lot from the programme developed for the very purpose of giving young drivers a peek at the machinery so that they know what to expect when they finally do get a chance to join in on
the Formula 1 action. He also said that he learnt a lot about the tyres and how the aerodynamics work for them.
He felt that the day and a half he got was not enough for him and looks for more such events to promote the pool of young talent itching to get a chance to test out F1 machinery.
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