“Obviously, the order in the second session is not representative of the relative strengths in the field, but I am still reasonably confident and if we manage to find a good set-up, then we can fight for the top places.”
Robert Kubica:
“There is nothing special to report from today, as it was just a normal Friday with us testing almost everything we had planned. Now we shall see how the weather is tomorrow and what we have to do to improve the car.
“As always at
Silverstone, the balance of the car is changing with the weather conditions, especially the wind. I have never driven here in the rain yet, but for me whether it rains or is dry it makes no difference.”
Fernando Alonso:
“It was a usual day of practice, except for a problem this morning which cost me a little track time. My mechanics did a remarkable job to fix the car, and I was able to continue normally with my programme in the afternoon.
“I mainly concentrated on evaluating the tyres and set-up work based on the information we collected last week. We must now try and make the most of the final practice session tomorrow morning, but we are going in the right direction.”
Mark Webber:
“Not a bad afternoon session. We had a look at a few different settings, as conditions were not the same as at the test, but that's normal. After a small electronic problem this morning, we had some better running this afternoon when I was much happier with the car. Now we'll wait and see what the weather will do tomorrow.”
Sebastian Vettel:
“Last week's test was the first time I drove this track and I like it, especially the first part with very fast corners and combinations of them. It's good fun and today we had a very productive session, ending up with clear answers on all the things we had on our test list.
“Therefore we can be quite happy, but now we must analyse what the others did to get a better idea of how quick we are – or how slow! I think we are in good shape; the balance feels good and I'm happy with that.”
David Coulthard:
“A normal Friday. It was good to get some more running time, after missing a lot of track time at the test due to the various problems we had there. I didn't have a chance to run the option tyre during the test, so that was my first look at it today.”
Nelsinho Piquet:
“My day went well, as I was able to do lots of laps and complete my programme. We ended the first day of work with lots of information, which completes the work we had already started last week. Our times today were not especially significant as the main priority was to complete the programme, which we did. Overall, I am rather optimistic as we approach the weekend.”
