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9 February: Testing Report - Jerez - Day Two Location: Circuito de Jerez, Spain The primary focus of today�s programme was tyre development work as the team will select which tyre to use at next month�s Australian Grand Prix by the end of his week. Consequently both Juan Pablo and Pedro completed three long runs each today. Today also marked Juan Pablo�s first test with the West McLaren Mercedes race team personnel who will be responsible for his race car over grands prix weekends. Juan Pablo�s MP4-20 was running with the new roll hoop mid wing as first seen yesterday. With the changes to the FIA regulations for 2005 resulting in approximately one third of downforce lost, a number of the teams have introduced new aero packages, such as the roll hoop mid wing on the MP4-20, to try to claw back some of the lost downforce. Similar to yesterday, today�s running was affected by a number of red flag incidents and a damaged radiator on Pedro�s car meant that the Spaniard lost an hour and a half�s running time in the afternoon. Juan Pablo was the fastest driver of the day completing 102 laps with a best lap time of 1m16.803s. Pedro was 10th fastest completing 98 laps and his fastest time was a 1m17.953s lap. Juan Pablo Montoya �We have been experiencing understeer today, but we are aware of this problem and are confident it will be solved by the end of the week. I have completed several long scheduled runs today and have also been working with members of the race team, building up a good rapport with them ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.� Pedro de la Rosa �Today we have been focusing on long runs, working on reliability and tyre testing for Michelin, particularly concentrating on tyre performance over a simulated final 50km of a grand prix. The red flags have affected the running today and in addition, this afternoon we had a slight problem with the radiator on my car which prevented me from running for 90 minutes. I have however still completed 98 laps.� Juan Pablo will be joined by Kimi at the circuit tomorrow for day three of the four day testing programme.
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