2007 Hungarian Grand Prix Free Practice Report
Adrian Sutil (car 20, F8-VII/03):
FP1: 21st 1:26.332 (29 laps)
FP2: 21st 1:23.673 (34 laps)
Sakon Yamamoto (car 21, F8-VII/04):
FP1: 22nd 1:28.118 (30 laps)
FP2: 22nd 1:26.307 (29 laps)
Weather: Highs of 31 C ambient / 43 C track. Sunny and hot
in the morning, rain in the final minutes of session two.
3 August 2007 - The Etihad Aldar Spyker Formula One Team
enjoyed a trouble-free opening day of the Hungarian Grand
Prix today. Sakon Yamamoto, making his team debut, and Adrian
Sutil completed more than 500km in total over the two free
practice sessions at the 4.4km Hungaroring.
Sakon completed his first laps in the Spyker F8-VII in the
morning session. The Japanese driver put in 30 laps, the most
of any driver, in the first session and a further 29 laps
in the second as he familiarised himself with the car.
Adrian Sutil similarly had a productive opening day. Making
his first appearance at the Hungaroring, the German concentrated
on learning the circuit and evaluating the super soft and
soft Bridgestone tyre options available for this weekend's
race.
Adrian Sutil (car 20)
'It was a normal day today with no big problems. We tried
the two different tyre options here, but the problem is that
the option tyre is very soft and goes off very quickly. But
in general the car balance felt good, and I think the day
went pretty well.'
Sakon Yamamoto (car 21)
'As today was the first time I had driven a Spyker car, in
the morning we spent time checking the car and my position.
The final lap time was quite bad we know, but we worked on
this in the later session. For the afternoon our programme
was mainly getting familiar with the car and it's a shame
we couldn't use the softer tyres to better effect. When I
was on them I had traffic and then a yellow flag, which was
bad luck, but we have good preparation for tomorrow and will
keep working to have another good drive.'
Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer
'With both drivers not having driven here before, today was
all about acclimatising to the track. As always in Hungary,
the green first day track conditions and tyre graining dominate,
but overall both drivers didn't make any mistakes and got
a lot of laps in to familiarise themselves with the track.
Tomorrow we need to work on the finer set-up of the car, but
today was pretty much a trouble-free day.'
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