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Saturday press conference - Spanish GP - Pt.1.

Saturday, 26th April 2008

Drivers: Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), Fernando Alonso (Renault), Felipe Massa (Ferrari)

Q:
Felipe, the third sector seems to have been the problem since yesterday.

FM:
I don’t think so. I think in a qualifying like that you can see the difference in the lap times. If you don’t put exactly every sector together you can lose two positions in a very easy way. If you look I did my best lap at my first attempt when I did a perfect lap, but then on the second try, I couldn’t put the lap together, so then I stayed with my lap time from the first attempt, but I was heavier on fuel, for sure. The tendency is to improve the lap time, so I couldn’t do a perfect lap at the second attempt and I lost two positions. In a way I was even lucky, because I was very very close to the guys behind, so I could easily have been fifth. So you can see, if you don’t put the lap together you can lose positions, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy with the car. I’m quite happy and I think we can have a good race tomorrow.

Q:
And much quicker from Q1 to Q2 as well.

FM:
Yeah. Q2 is when you have soft tyres, we have hard tyres in Q1. You just go out after a big break, so it’s normal to be quicker in Q2.

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