| Paul Ricard Test: Day 2 | 
 
 
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| 06.04.2006 | 
 
 
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| Dates:  | 
06 April 2006  | 
 
 
| Location: | 
Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France  | 
 
 
| Drivers:  | 
 Ricardo Zonta, Olivier Panis  | 
 
 
| Track length:  | 
 3.818km  | 
 
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 Panasonic Toyota Racing continued its three-day test programme at the Circuit 
Paul Ricard with drivers Oliver Panis and Ricardo Zonta at the wheel. A planned 
chassis change on Oliver Panis' car caused a delay in the morning; nevertheless, 
he hit the track in the afternoon to focus on tyre testing for the Imola tyre 
choice. Ricardo Zonta had a full day of testing also concentrating on trying different 
tyre constructions for the next race.    
IN THE FAST LANE 
Ricardo Zonta once again put in a large amount of laps and secured a good lap 
time for the team.
Ricardo Zonta - Chassis TF106/01  
Best lap time: 1m04.655s  
Total laps: 133  
Total distance: 507.794km  
 
 
"We tried numerous things today and continued our tyre test. My car was reliable 
and therefore I could put in a lot of laps. We will do longs runs tomorrow as 
we did not have enough time to finish them today, because we had to concentrate 
on gaining results for the Imola tyre choice."  
 
AGAINST THE CLOCK 
Due to a change in chassis, Olivier Panis' work day started after lunch, only 
to be cut short further by some set-up adjustments.
Olivier Panis - Chassis TF106/02  
Best lap time: 1m05.524s  
Total laps: 47  
Total distance: 179.446km  
 
 
"We wanted to use the race chassis today, which the team did a good job of 
setting-up in time for the second half of the day. It turned out to be a hard 
day for me and my team, as we had some issues with different set-ups in the afternoon, 
but we are still positive and looking forward to tomorrow to finish the tyre testing 
that we need to achieve."  
 
CIRCUIT DU SOLEIL 
General Manager Car Design and Development, Pascal Vasselon: 
 
"Our day has been a little less productive than yesterday, but altogether 
we are quite advanced now in our preparations for San Marino and Nurbürgring. 
We are reasonably confident that we have looked at all our options for the tyre 
choice and we will just finish up some long runs tomorrow. The most positive thing 
is that the weather is finally similar to race conditions, which allows us to 
better simulate what we can expect at coming races during the season."  | 
 
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