Ferrari is preparing to return to the long straight of the Vairano circuit to test the latest upgrades for the team’s improving 2011 car.<\/p>\n
After a disappointing start to the season, Fernando Alonso secured the 150 Italia car’s first podium in Turkey and more upgrades will be brought to the Circuit de Catalunya in a week.<\/p>\n
Before the Spanish grand prix, test driver Jules Bianchi will run up and down the Vairano straight in one of the team’s allocation of aerodynamic test days.<\/p>\n
“We hope that as early as Barcelona we will have new parts that allow us to take an important step forward in qualifying as well,” said Alonso after Turkey.<\/p>\n
Frenchman Bianchi had run the Istanbul package at Vairano before Turkey, and it was scheduled that Italian Davide Rigon, a member of Ferrari’s development team and a regular in the Maranello simulator, would get his chance this time.<\/p>\n
But Rigon is instead recovering from surgery to have more than 20 pins inserted into his badly broken leg after a GP2 crash in Turkey.<\/p>\n
“He was doing precious work for us in the simulator,” said Alonso.\u00a0 “I’m very sorry for him and we hope that he recovers soon.”<\/p>\n
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