It’s Finally Green in Sakhir, Klien Logs 125

Green track today in Sakhir! Testing was finally able to get back underway today and non too soon. For the first couple of hours the track was pretty slippery with sand and the early lap times certainly reflected that, but the conditions did improve and finally they were back to normal.

All three teams put in a lot of laps in the morning alone trying to catch up as much as they could on two lost days.

Christian Klien concentrated on set-up work and tried different tyre compounds. With the car running for 125 laps (677 kms), the engineers were able to collect a lot of data on the car’s behaviour in warm weather conditions.

“In the morning the track was still slightly wet as a result of being cleaned after yesterday’s sandstorm,”
“Because of this it took some time to build up a proper grip level. That gave me the opportunity to get used to the BMW Sauber F1.09, which I drove for the very first time.”
“In the afternoon the track conditions were much better and we were able to go ahead with our test programme as scheduled,”

Christian Klien
Chassis / engine: BMW Sauber F1.09-02 / BMW 86/9
Test kilometres today: 677 (125 laps)
Fastest lap: 1:33.666 min

What’s Next:

BMW Sauber will stay in Bahrain and test for four more days next week. Monday Klien will continue testing and from Tuesday to Thursday Nick Heidfeld will be at the wheel.