Lewis Hamilton:
“I simply love Monaco, and enjoy every single moment I get to spend on the track. The car felt great almost immediately, and I was able to show good pace from the very beginning. As the circuit evolved throughout both practice sessions we made some good progress with both the set-up and tyre evaluation. I spent the first session on the same set of tyres. There is a long way to go, but I enjoy this so much and we will work hard to continue making progress.”
Nico Rosberg:
“First of all, it's really nice to be driving here again because it's just a really fun track. I was looking forward to this weekend because I thought we were going to have a good car here, and it now looks like we've arrived with a good set-up.
“I was going well all day and felt comfortable in the car. I am also able to push quite hard, so I'm hoping that I can keep it up do a good job in qualifying and then have a good race. We worked on a few set-up variants today. We didn't finish the session using our optimum set-up, but we know where we need to go and we still have some reserves up our sleeves, so I am pretty happy with how things are looking.”
Kimi Raikkonen:
“I would say this was a normal day of free practice. We went quite well, especially on used tyres in the morning, but we struggled a bit to do a time on new tyres in the second session and now we have to look at the data carefully to understand how to improve.
“There is plenty of time to do that and so I am not particularly worried, at least at the moment. A wet race? It would make matters complicated, but it would be the same for everyone.”
Felipe Massa:
“Our rivals are very strong here, even allowing for the unknown factor of fuel loads. I wasn't able to do a good lap on the soft tyres, but things went well on the hard ones – we have to study the situation calmly and try to get all the details right.
