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Unexpected sunshine greeted the teams at Jerez after a night of torrential rain. Despite six red flags, most were able to complete their programme of testing.

The teams enjoyed the first full day of dry testing © Sutton Images

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• Mark Webber

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• Jerez - Day Three

Force India
Adrian Sutil: "Today was our first proper shot at dry running this test and it went pretty well. In the morning we did a few short runs and some set-up work and then in the afternoon moved on to longer runs and getting more information on the new tyres. At the end of the day we wanted to do a further run but unfortunately a red flag came out so we didn't do as many laps as we would have liked over the whole day. The tyres at the moment are quite difficult to handle as the soft compound grains up very quickly in the low temperatures. The mediums last a bit longer but still grain after 10 or 12 laps. There's no way to avoid it at the moment but I'm not too concerned as I am sure they will handle better in the higher temperatures we'll see in the races."

Chief race engineer Dominic Harlow: "After last night's rather dramatic flooding a much better day in Jerez. Adrian looked at weight distribution and car set-up during the session. Dry running today has allowed us to learn some interesting things about the car and the 2010 tyres. We were only really limited by a number of red flag periods."

Lotus
Chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne: "A reasonably good day today and the best thing was getting our first dry running in. We had a small problem this morning with a clutch sensor but as we wanted to wait until conditions had dried up that suited us well. We concentrated on long runs and started to work with the two tyre types, which we obviously haven't been able to do before, so overall good progress."

Mercedes
Michael Schumacher: "Today was a nice end to my testing days in Jerez this week and it was great to finally have some consistent dry running. We are on schedule with our programme but at the same time, we are well aware that there is still a lot of work ahead of us. The final test in Barcelona next week will be an important test in this respect and will give us valuable information about the performance of the car."

Red Bull
Head of race engineering Ian Morgan: "It's good to finally get some dry conditions and complete some proper runs on dry tyres, which we've done very little of with this car so far. We did 115 laps today, which is pretty good; things look promising."

Mark Webber: "We're certainly showing some good form in terms of reliability, but we always need to work on performance; you never know that the other teams are doing. We're in a good position at the moment to build up to the first race - it's close,but there's also quite a way to go, as other teams have no doubt planned developments for Bahrain. We're doing the work we need to do, in order to understand the car more."

Renault
Robert Kubica: "In the morning it was damp so we just did an installation lap to check everything was working and waited for the track to dry. The conditions were quite windy, which has a big influence on the car, but we were able to test quite a lot of things so I'm pretty pleased with the day."

Chief engineer Alan Permane: "Finally the weather improved and we managed to complete a productive day of work. We got some useful set-up work done with Robert, which has taken us in a good direction. We also spent some time doing procedural work and practice starts with a heavy car. Robert also ran a couple of different dry tyre compounds to compare them, which was useful."

Sauber
Kamui Kobayashi: "It was obviously not a perfect day, but I prefer to have a technical problem now rather than in the first race. Although I could only complete a limited number of laps, we learned a few things on which we can build tomorrow." Test engineer Thomas Hunsicker "The conditions were good today, but unfortunately we weren't able to make the best use of them. We lost a lot of time with a fuel system problem. However, the weather forecast is fine for tomorrow, so we should still be able to complete the main part of our planned programme for this test."

Williams
Technical director Sam Michael: "Finally a dry day. Nico spent most of the morning doing pit stop practice with the race team before moving on to a race simulation. He then followed that up with a long run for set-up work. The cause of the problem which forced Nico to stop out on track towards the end of the session was hydraulic, but the part was high mileage. Nico will spend the evening working on set-ups and will continue running tomorrow for our last day in Jerez."

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