Circuit: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana – 4.005 kmsDriver: Sebastien BuemiChassis: STR5 - 02Best time: 1:13.823, 107 laps

A better day today for the new car. Overnight, the team managed to locateand fix the gearbox actuator problem that meant the car spent much ofyesterday in the garage.

Therefore today, Sebastien Buemi completed a good number of laps andthe team worked through the normal programme for a new car: carrying outbasic evaluations of the car systems and brakes, as well as starting to getan understanding of the two new Bridgestone compounds that are availablehere in Valencia.

Sebastien Buemi: “The car felt good today and I’m happy to havecompleted many more laps compared to yesterday. We still had someminor issues, but we were able to fix these. By the end of the day we havecollected a lot of data to analyse, which will help us to get a betterunderstanding of the new car. A comparison with the old car is difficultbecause of the different fuel loads and tyres that apply this year.All in all, it was a good day and we will see what we can learn tomorrow.”

For Wednesday’s final day of this test, Jaime Alguersuari takes over fromSebastien Buemi.