SPANISH GRAND PRIX
Barcelona, Sunday 14th May 2006
Kimi Raikkonen MP4-21 02
Juan Pablo Montoya MP4-21 05
T-car (Kimi) MP4-21 01
Team McLaren Mercedes driver Kimi Raikkonen finished fifth
in today's 66-laps Spanish Grand Prix. Juan Pablo Montoya
retired from the race on lap 18 after spinning at turn two
and getting stuck on the kerb. Kimi was on a two-stop- strategy
and made his pit stops on laps 22 (7.9 seconds) and 46 (7.6
seconds). Kimi remains third in the Drivers' ranking with
27 points and Juan Pablo is seventh with 15 points. Team McLaren
Mercedes holds third place in the Constructors' Championship
with 42 points. The team will test this coming week at the
Paul Ricard track in France with all four drivers sharing
the work load.
KIMI RAIKKONEN
"A rather uneventful race for me. I made a good start
where I managed to get up from ninth to fifth and that was
all the progress I was able to make. It was simply not possible
to keep up with the Renaults and the Ferraris this weekend
and we will spend the time before the Monaco Grand Prix looking
at ways to improve."
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA
"I made a dreadful start off the line and lost three
or four places but managed to gain some ground again in the
first corner to end up 11th. Then I don't know quite what
happened but I lost the car and got stuck on the kerb and
that was it. The strategy we were running meant that I carried
a lot of fuel and I think with the ways things were looking
we could have scored some points today. Overall a difficult
weekend for us but we will continue testing this week and
then look forward to the Monaco Grand Prix.".
RON DENNIS
"A difficult weekend for us where despite a good drive
by Kimi, we were only able to achieve fifth place. The whole
team is working hard to improve the package to increase our
performance in the coming races."
NORBERT HAUG
"To be the third team behind Renault and Ferrari again
and the gap to the leaders is a disappointment that we have
to change. Kimi made a perfect start to improve from ninth
to fifth but the overall pace of his car was not fast enough
and he delivered what was possible today. Juan Pablo was on
a one stop strategy but he spun out of a possible points result
the cause of which we will investigate. Our attention is now
on improving our technical package during the next races."
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