Williams has abandoned the remainder of the Barcelona test after Nico Rosberg destroyed the sole FW29 chassis on Wednesday.
Most teams will continue running at the Catalan circuit also on Thursday, after the session was hit with bad weather on Tuesday, but Rosberg’s shunt made morsels out of the Grove based team’s revised bodywork package.
Scarce spare parts had already been flown out to Spain following test driver Kazuki Nakajima’s crash on Monday at turn 9.
Rosberg’s sizeable impact was at turn 10, and while he emerged unscathed, the car was badly damaged at the front and the right side, and the rear wing was also knocked off.
It is understood that the cause of the accident was driver error after the German got too high on the kerbs, and photographs show team personnel and marshals at the scene collecting broken pieces of the Toyota-powered single seater after it spun through 180-degrees and connected with the tyre barrier.
