Chevrolet driver Nicola Larini celebrated his 44th birthday while testing his FIA WTCC car at the Guadix racetrack in Spain.

Larini and the Chevrolet RML team spent two days at the Spanish circuit with the aim to establish better chassis performance, tune other car areas, put mileage on new parts and do some evaluation work on prototype parts.

Larini commented: "We had two full working days. Weather conditions were excellent and the Guadix circuit is very interesting, so it was a very useful test. We have worked mainly on the set-up, trying a number of little adjustments, some were new, and others we had already tried. It has been a lot of fine-tuning."

The car used was the designated 2008-spec test car, as the actual race cars are currently enroute to Mexico via sea freight containers.

BMW Team UK/RBM also took part in the test with reigning world champion Andy Priaulx.

Eurosport