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Williams satisfied despite water leak on Massa's car

The Williams F1 team proved satisfied with today's running. The team claimed to have gathered enough data to progress towards qualifying, even though a water leak on Felipe Massa's car prevented the Brazilian to run in FP2. Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering: 'We picked up a lot of data on Valtteri’s car and completed all of the tests we had planned so it was a good day for him. Unfortunately our post FP1 inspection identified a water leak on the power unit of Felipe’s car. This required the power unit to be removed from the chassis to repair, which resulted in Felipe missing FP2. We didn’t have any other reliability issues with the car that are causing us concern. For us a...
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