Esteban Ocon and teammate Sergio Perez shared the testing duties for their Force India team on Wednesday completing a total of 130 laps between them in the Bahrain heat \. Esteban's best time of 1:32.142 was good enough for P6 while Sergio set a 1:35.015 for P12.
“My focus today was on short performance runs,” Esteban said. “When you test a few days after the race at the same circuit it's a good chance to make comparisons and feel the improvements to the car. Track temperatures were really hot this morning, but the car felt good in these conditions, which is a good sign.”
It was a very productive day, which allowed the team to catch up with the test items that they didn't manage to evaluate on Tuesday.
In the morning Esteban focussed on performance running and in the afternoon Sergio worked on long runs.
This means that have collected all the correlation data which will improve their understanding of the VJM10 in the short and the long term
“It was only a half day in the car for me, but it was useful to have a solid afternoon to learn some things away from a race weekend,” Sergio added. “I worked on our race performance, which is one of our strengths, but there are still areas we need to improve. 70 laps is more than a race distance and we've learned some things that will help us in the races coming up.”
