Date           Tuesday 2 February  Track    Circuito de la Comunidad Valenciana RicardoTormo Driver   Nico Rosberg  

No of Laps         119 laps   Best Lap Time  01:12.899  Kilometres Covered 482km  Track Length  4.051km 

Weather    Fine  Ambient Temperature Maximum 13°C Track Temperature  Maximum 19°CNico Rosberg was back at the wheel of the MGP W01 car today for his firstfull day of testing for the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team. Another fine and dryday in Valencia provided ideal winter testing conditions and enabled theteam to successfully work through today's programme.

After completing the initial set-up work with the MGP W01 yesterday morning,Nico had a productive day focusing on long runs which saw him cover a racedistance mileage over the course of the day. Although still not entirelycomfortable with his position in the car, Nico completed 119 laps today,setting a fastest lap time of 01:12.899.

Michael Schumacher will take over from Nico tomorrow for the third and finalday of this week's test.

Nico Rosberg: "I'm very pleased with our first full day of testing and wewere really able to get into the programme and achieve some good work today.We successfully completed a race distance on the car's second day of runningand I'm quite happy with how the car felt on the longer runs with heavyfuel. It felt like the same car, just a little bit slower, but the balancewas good. We've still got some work to do on my position in the car as Idropped down by 1.5cm during the day which explains why the visibility got alittle difficult towards the end but that's something we can fix before thenext test. Overall it's been a positive start to our pre-season testing andI'm enjoying working with the team and feeling very comfortable here."