“It seems we are moving in the right direction with the new car and we have made a step forward. It’s fun fighting in the top ten. We should be in good shape tomorrow, whatever the weather and we will deal with whatever comes.”
Felipe Massa:
“It’s a real shame ending up ninth on the grid because of a problem with my pit-stop. I lost so much time as my mechanics had trouble changing the right rear wheel, and I was unable to start my second qualifying run. I think I could have done a good time – maybe not enough to take pole, but at least good enough for a place on the front two rows.
“There was a lot of wind today, the balance of the car was not as good as yesterday and we were not as quick as at last week’s test. Tomorrow I can definitely expect to be fighting all race-long to move up the order and I will do all I can to bring home a good result, but it won’t be easy.”
Robert Kubica:
“It was a difficult qualifying in the end, but finally we were on the right pace. Q1 was good and Q2 was even better, as the first time on option tyres was very good. I backed off in the last sector to just bring the car home, and it was still enough to be two or three tenths off the
McLaren time.
“In Q3 I went through the first sector without any problems, but then I felt the same problem at the rear that I had felt on Friday. Now we have to analyse everything and see what is going on.”
David Coulthard:
“It’s disappointing to finish eleventh. If we’d done some more running this morning, I think we’d have been in better shape, but we had a problem with an engine oil leak and so were using Q1 to get up-to-speed in the dry today.
“Changing conditions are always a big factor around this track. On other tracks, a loss of running time wouldn’t really be an issue, but this one is very open to the wind, so every day is different.
