Sauber’s Felipe Nasr enjoyed a day of new experiences during his first outing for Sauber in Jerez in which he set the second-quickest time of the day.
The rookie completed 88 laps – over a race distance – and says that he is satisfied with his first day’s running in the C34.
“So far, so good,” says Nasr. “It’s a new environment for me. A new car, a new team, working with new people. So I’m just getting used to everything – all the systems and procedures.”
Despite a number of Friday practice outings for Williams last year, Nasr says he had a variety of brand new experiences around Jerez today.
“I’ve never driven on the soft tyres before, so that was the first time I did that today. So many things to take into tomorrow and keep working,” says Nasr.
“It was also good to get the feeling of the wet tyres and the intermediate tyres. It was quite slippery. It was my first time driving a Formula 1 car in wet conditions. It wasn’t ideal, because it rained quite heavily and then it dried quite quickly, so it was difficult to know the grip available.”
Having set the second-quickest time of the test so far on the soft Pirelli tyres, Nasr is not getting ahead of himself ahead of his return to the cockpit tomorrow.
“It’s not bad, but at the end of the day, it’s just the first day of work and we need to keep ourselves focused on the long runs. Of course, it’s good to do a good lap, but there’s is so much more to being competitive, so there is more work to do.”
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William Stuart (@williamstuart)
2nd February 2015, 20:32
That livery really is awful. Not sure why people love it, i’d rather have another McLaren style livery than that.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
3rd February 2015, 3:52
@williamstuart People already complain that F1 cars look all the same and you want every car to be silver.
pastaman (@)
3rd February 2015, 17:21
I think he’s saying that he’d rather have similar decent liveries, than one that’s different but ugly. I tend to agree.
You spend 100m+ a season, but you can’t pay someone a drop in the bucket to design something that looks good? Silly
Polo (@polo)
3rd February 2015, 4:23
Imo, the idea is good (Blue+Yellow – Banco do Brasil’s colours to please Nasr’s sponsor, plus it matches Ericsson’s national colours) but the execution is… pretty bad. It’s a more colourful change from the abundance of darker liveries we’ve in recent years, but it just looks far too plain. Don’t understand why the yellow is only on the sidepods, would a stripe going down the centre or something be too much to ask?
Carlin’s GP2 car is an example of what the livery should have looked like: https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/carl-nasr-bahr-test-2014.jpg
lubhz (@lubhz)
3rd February 2015, 15:15
Oh yes that’s so much better! thanks
pastaman (@)
3rd February 2015, 17:18
Agreed. Boring and unimaginative