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Issues cut Williams' first day short at Barcelona

ESPNF1 Staff
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Pastor Maldonado said Williams did not complete the mileage it had hoped for on the first day of the final test at Barcelona, but still gathered some data on its upgrades for the first race.

After a positive test last week, Maldonado clocked just 58 laps on Thursday and set the slowest time overall. The team said it was experimenting with a new front wing and some "exploratory mechanical set-ups" aimed at the forthcoming races.

"During the day, we encountered a couple of issues which limited running and which we are currently investigating," chief operations engineer Mark Gillan explained.

Maldonado added: "We didn't complete as much running as we would have liked today, but we still gathered some good data. This morning we ran our new front wing so we will analyse the results from our aero runs this evening. We completed a few longer runs during the afternoon as we investigated a number of set-up directions."

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