“A wet race would be good for our team, as both Jenson and Rubens relish driving in the wet. As you would expect more cars to drop out over the course of a wet race, we would hope to take advantage of the conditions.”
Dieter Gass [Toyota – chief race and test engineer]:
“This was obviously almost the worst case scenario for us today, as we missed most of the second session with both cars. Timo had a clutch problem, and the mechanics did a very good job to fix that in time to get the car back out and give him a chance to try the option tyres at the end of the session.
“With Jarno we had a problem on the rear wing. He was running with a new part so we reverted to the standard-spec with Timo, and we will continue with that for the rest of the weekend.
“Prior to that this morning was reasonable apart from the break for the red flag, and we went through most of what we had planned, but the afternoon session was the important one and now we have clearly lost a lot of running time. Luckily we were here for the test last week, so we have good data to base our decisions on for tomorrow.”
Mike Gascoyne [Force India F1 – chief technical officer]:
“A very productive day, with no real problems on either car, really just working through tyre comparisons and set-up options for the weekend. We ran the front inertial damper for the first time on both cars, and the performance seemed positive. Overall the package of improvements we've got here seems to be working well, and we appear to be closer to the midfield group. We just have to see what the weather brings for the next two days.”
Hirohide Hamashima [Bridgestone – director of motorsport tyre development]:
“The wind at
Silverstone made conditions difficult for teams and drivers to judge handling and set-up. From all of today's data it seems that the medium tyre is the quicker over a lap, offering more grip, however we did not see sufficient long runs on this tyre to judge how durable it will be over a race stint.
