The Virgin Racing squad continued to struggle in testing this week. The team, whose car has been solely designed with computers rather than the use of wind tunnels, continues to struggle with hydraulic problems in Spain. According to Technical Director Nick Wirth, however, the team hopes to have its problems solved by next week's test in Barcelona.
"After being delayed by a small spin on Friday morning on a drying track, we ran through some critical race-related procedures which we haven't had time to get to so far during testing," Wirth explained on Friday.
"Once the track had completely dried, we started our performance work but we were again frustrated by a reoccurrence of one of our known hydraulic issues. This stopped Lucas (di Grassi) from doing more than a handful of flying laps and then finally prevented any more meaningful running, so he didn't get up to speed today.
"The hydraulic issue caught us out on the first day of this test and since Wednesday we've been forced to run conservatively until a new solution is available for the Barcelona test.
"We'll try and put some more fixes in place tonight to allow us to get some more laps in tomorrow. We're very aware that Lucas has had very little running so far and we hope to improve things so he can get more seat time at the Barcelona test next week."
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