Hungarian Grand Prix – Budapest, 3rd August 2007
Free practice – First session
Driver Pos. Time Laps Chassis
F. Massa 2nd 1.22.519 18 260
K. Raikkonen 3rd 1.22.540 21 262
Weather: air temperature 27/28 °C, track temperature
35/38°C, clear skies.
Free Practice – Second session
Driver Pos. Time Laps Chassis
K. Raikkonen 6th 1.21.589 29 262
F. Massa 7th 1.21.620 29 260
Weather: air 30/28 °C, track 40/39 °C, variable,
brief rain shower.
Kimi Raikkonen: “I am not very happy
with the handling of my car in these two sessions and obviously
we have a lot to do in order to improve. But this is only
Friday and there is no point in making a drama out of it as
far as qualifying and the race are concerned. I wasn’t
able to get a really clear picture of the performance of the
two types of tyre, especially on the first lap, firstly because
of traffic and secondly because of that quick short shower.”
Felipe Massa: “Overall, I am happy
with the day. In the final series of laps I could have done
a good time but there was a yellow flag and I had to slow.
It’s hard to say at this stage of the weekend if we
are faster or slower than our closest rivals, but we are definitely
competitive. We worked a lot on the set-up and towards the
end of the day we found some good solutions. There is still
a slight unknown as far as tyre performance is concerned,
especially on the softer ones over a long run, while the harder
ones however are more consistent.”
Luca Baldisserri: “The way these three
hours of free practice went revealed a slight difficulty on
our part when it came to finding the right balance for the
car, especially on Kimi’s. We picked up a lot of data
and we will have to analyse it very carefully to improve the
situation for qualifying and the race. On top of this comes
uncertainty over the weather and the influence that could
have in terms of set-up, especially for qualifying which is
so important. Therefore, it is easy to see why it is really
difficult to make predictions for the rest of the weekend.
The handling of the two types of tyre we have available is
rather unusual so far: we have a big difference in terms of
consistency of performance, while on the first lap the results
are very similar.”
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