Italian Grand Prix – Monza, 7th September 2007
Free practice – First session
Driver Pos. Time Laps Chassis
K. Raikkonen 1st 1.22.446 20 264
F. Massa 2nd 1.22.590 17 263
Weather: air temperature 18/22 °C, track temperature
26/29 °C, clear skies.
Free Practice – Second session
Driver Pos. Time Laps Chassis
F. Massa 6th 1.23.722 27 263
K. Raikkonen 8th 1.23.833 12 264
Weather: air 26/27 °C, track 36/38 °C, clear skies.
Kimi Raikkonen: The first session went well,
but in the second one I lost a lot of time with a hydraulic
problem and I only managed to do one run of laps on new tyres
in the final moments. We therefore don’t have much of
a reference point on where we actually are, on top of the
fact that as usual there are the unknown factors linked to
the fuel loads and tyres used by the other teams during the
practice. The balance of the car is not bad, but we definitely
have work to do to improve the performance, especially for
qualifying, where our rivals are particularly competitive.
But our race pace should be good. Monza is Ferrari’s
home race and I will be doing my best to give the team and
all its fans something to be happy about.”
Felipe Massa: “We tackled the two
free practice sessions in a different way, working mainly
on race pace in the afternoon. We still have work to do on
the car set-up to find the best balance on the single lap,
while over a long run I would say that we are in reasonably
good shape. Today, the track was a bit dirty but definitely
in better condition than it was at last week’s test.”
Luca Baldisserri: “There were two
sides to today. This morning, everything went according to
the set plan, but in the afternoon we had a hydraulic problem
on Kimi’s car which took some time to sort out. Now
we have to establish what caused it. Luckily, we also have
available to us the data from last week’s test at this
track. Felipe struggled a bit to find the right balance on
the car on the first lap but his long run pace was quite good.
To sum up, we are certainly not in for an easy weekend, but
we have the potential to do well.”
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