MF1 RACING
2006 Malaysian GP - Free Practice
Adrian Burgess, Sporting Director:
"All three cars completed their scheduled programmes
and gave us a lot of useful information for tonight. Giorgio
did a good job on his first Friday with the team, experiencing
no problems whatsoever, which is commendable. Both race drivers
also completed their programmes, although we lost a small
amount of track time when Tiago experienced a fuel system
problem late in the first session. The reliability of the
cars in the afternoon was encouraging, though, so we think
we've got a handle on that. Hopefully we'll make the right
tyre choice tonight, and we'll see what comes tomorrow."
Tiago Monteiro (POR)
Chassis: M16-03, Car #18
First Session Classification: 14th, 1:39.899, 8 laps completed
Second Session Classification: 26th, 1:39.416, 20 laps completed
Quote: "It went OK, generally, because I think we improved
the car. At least we're going in the right direction, I think.
I had limited running in the morning session, so I wasn't
able to gather as much information about the tyres as I would
have liked. As a result, I was dealing with a little bit of
understeer at the beginning of the second session and we had
to spend some valuable time getting on top of that. But at
least the T-Car put in a lot of laps, so we should have some
good information to analyse from that."
Christijan Albers (NED)
Chassis: M16-02, Car #19
First Session Classification: 17th, 1:40.608, 12 laps completed
Second Session Classification: 24th, 1:38.918, 20 laps completed
Quote: "This morning, we were a little bit off the pace,
but the team did some good work during the break and we managed
to come a little bit closer to the rest of the field. I think
there's still room to improve, but we made some big steps
and put up reasonable times in the second session. We have
to see where we can make further gains, and hopefully have
a good race."
Giorgio Mondini (SUI)
Chassis: M16-04, T-Car
First Session Classification: 15th, 1:40.608, 22 laps completed
Second Session Classification: 22nd, 1:38.256, 20 laps completed
Quote: "It was great, absolutely fantastic, but my neck
let go toward the end of the second session. I did a good
run, and I wanted to do a better one - and to be honest, I
believe we could have gone even faster - but my neck just
couldn't handle it anymore. No amount of training can prepare
you for those kinds of loads. I mean, it's fine, it's fine,
it's fine, and then - bang - it just lets go, and it's impossible
to recover from that. But the team is just amazing, especially
my engineers. They really make things easier, because they
take time to explain everything. Overall, I think I did a
good job. I can go to sleep tonight knowing I helped the team."
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