Formula one: Webber plays down car upgrades

BARCELONA: Mark Webber completed his final day of pre-season testing in Barcelona as champions Red Bull handed him an upgraded car to try out before his home Australian Grand Prix on March 18. Webber, who was eighth-fastest of 10 drivers on track, played down the importance of the new chassis and other changes like the revised exhaust layout and new front wing. “The thing that everyone’s asking about is the changes we made but I must say that the car was not massively different to the one I drove on Thursday,” said Webber. “We went through the normal programme, nothing drastic happened.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2012.