Kvyat buoyed by increased mileage

Daniil Kvyat says Red Bull’s increased mileage over the last two days should help the team improve more quickly throughout the rest of testing.

Daniel Ricciardo completed over 140 laps on Friday as well as a race simulation, and that was added to by Kvyat also reaching three figures and carrying out similar long runs on day three at the Circuit de Catalunya. Following two days of such consistent running, Kvyat says it is now down to Red Bull and Renault to make sure the team capitalises on the progress.

“There is always room for improvement but as you can see we are doing a lot of laps,” Kvyat said. “It is very good for the team, it’s very helpful for us and then there are some things which are out of my control. Of course I trust in Renault and I trust in Red Bull a lot so we hope to get the best out of it.”

Kvyat also highlighted the struggles Red Bull faced in 2014, saying the team should just focus on trying to gain as much data as possible over the final five days of testing.

“We learned many good things, like that we can do many laps! It was nice to see obviously yesterday with Daniel and today with myself doing a lot of laps. So it was very consistent running, useful for us, a lot of information and I think last year was definitely a lot tougher at this stage. Of course everyone else is making steps forward but we are also doing many laps and as many as we can do I think the more useful it’s going to be for us in the future.

“Even though we’re getting closer to Australia it’s still early days and nobody really knows where they are. We are doing our job, we have many people in our team who are all doing their best - including myself - and we are hoping to get ourselves in the best shape for Australia."

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