I think both the team and myself did a good job in terms of scoring the points we needed to, and it’s not bad to come out of the first round with the championship lead together with Alvaro Parente. Now we’ve just got to keep chipping away and working hard with the team. They’ve done a great job, and we’re going to try and keep collecting the points and get some wins, and then see what happens.
Grosjean obviously had some issues in qualifying in Barcelona – neither he nor Luca Filippi had great qualifying sessions – but at the same time we saw he was quick in the races. In the first race Romain was going towards the front easily, and in the second race he had good pace too, so obviously he is going to be a challenger. Luca will be a challenger as well, as soon as he puts everything together. When you start at the back and get frustrated it’s not easy, so I think for him it’s about controlling his head.
Karun also has to start getting everything together, and then he’s going to be a challenger too. I think Pastor Maldonado and Andreas Zuber have good speed, so it’s going to be a good championship. Alvaro was a bit of a surprise I think; we don’t know how consistent he is going to be because it’s his first year and he has some stuff to learn, but he’s very experienced. Quite a few people have good opportunities in this championship – Kamui Kobayashi was good in the second race in Barcelona as well – so as usual in GP2 we’re going to see a very good feud with plenty of different winners.
This year I have a better opportunity to be more consistent – not only because I have more experience now, but also because the team will give me a more consistent car. You could see last year that if iSport weren’t quickest in 2007, they were always there or thereabouts, so it’s possible to keep bringing the points home.
