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The Renault F1 Team remained in Monza today as Fernando Alonso took over the R28 for the first of two days' work with the team this week.

Perfect weather conditions greeted the team once again and made for ideal track conditions, allowing it to continue with the evaluation of a new low downforce aero package.

Alonso initially worked on improving the set-up in the morning before attention shifted to testing braking solutions in the afternoon.

It was another productive day with the Spaniard completing 95 laps, recording the sixth-quickest time, showing good reliability and gathering lots of valuable information. Alonso remains in the car for the final day of testing tomorrow when the team will complete its programme.

Fernando Alonso:
"It was a busy day as we tried lots of different settings on the car to try and improve the overall balance. Once we were happy with the basic set-up, we did some work on the brakes as this circuit is very demanding in that area. We found out some interesting things and learnt quite a lot about how the car behaves with low downforce. The track conditions were not too bad and it was quite consistent, which is always useful when you are testing."

Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer:
"It was Fernando's first day of running and again we had good reliability from the car, which was pleasing because the engineers could get straight down to the programme without any interruptions. We had quite a long test list to get through today, looking at aerodynamic tweaks, brake testing and some set-up work. The results look quite encouraging and have given us good direction for tomorrow."

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