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SAKHIR TEST - Day Four 16 February 2006
Circuit : Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir - 5.417 km
Car : RB 1
Driver: morning Tonio Liuzzi afternoon Scott Speed
Laps: 56 62
Best time: 1:31.38 1:32.640
For the final day of this test session, Tonio and Scott were allowed to play at racing drivers. The
Italian was first up in the cockpit this morning and the programme involved a race weekend
simulation. "First we went through a qualifying run to get everyone used to the new system for
Saturday afternoons and then we repeated it with a different strategy," explained Chief Engineer,
Lauren Mekies. "Then Tonio did a couple of long runs, twenty laps each with refueling and tyre
changing pit stops. Tonio did a fantastic job."
In the afternoon, it was Speed's turn to run through the same programme. "The track conditions
were very different in the afternoon, with the wind changing direction and it allowed us a good
insight into what to do with the car if this should happen over the race weekend," continued Mekies.
"Scott also did a good job and, over the four days as a whole, we completed a good mileage and the
team of mechanics and engineers worked very well. We are still quite a way from where we want to
be, but we are making progress."
Scuderia Toro Rosso will be back on track in Imola, just a few miles from the Faenza factory, when
it resumes testing on Tuesday 21 February, when Neel Jani will be back in the cockpit.