“Being on the third row is not the end of the world, as we are surrounded by good drivers who all want to finish the race. The key is now to make a strong start and hopefully gain a couple of positions, and I am confident as I believe our race pace is competitive and we have a good strategy.”
Heikki Kovalainen:
“I didn’t expect to be on the third row, as I thought the last part of qualifying wasn’t too bad. However, the times are very close and with just a tiny bit more I would have been able to gain a few positions, but that’s life. We will now dig deep, and tomorrow is another long day where anything can happen.
“I don’t know if the lack of running yesterday had any influence as the more laps you have the more confident you are, but I don’t think it would have made too much of a difference. The team has done a great job in getting the car ready and competitive, and I believe we should be able to go for it in the race tomorrow.”
Mark Webber:
“We knew it was going to be very tight here, and that’s turned out to be the case. Barcelona’s a track that the teams know well, but we’ve put ourselves in a good position for the first stint of tomorrow’s race and hopefully from there we can lay the foundations to get some good points. We had a problem this morning which we recovered from well, and hopefully we can
keep our points run going tomorrow.”
Jarno Trulli:
“That was a tough session. The wind was affecting the car balance a lot, and that played a major role. Unfortunately in this type of conditions we have never been very strong here. We managed to make it into the top ten, but I am not really satisfied with how the session went overall.
“I was happy with my lap in Q3 to make the fourth row, but it could be a very difficult race tomorrow. The teams are tightly-grouped but the season is long and hard, so we have to do our best to score points in every race.”
Nick Heidfeld:
“I’m certainly not happy with P9. The first outing in top ten qualifying was reasonable, but my final lap was not good enough. It didn’t help that I had graining towards the end of the lap.
