Spanish Grand Prix - Qualifying Round-Up
Today's Weather: Dry and sunny, air 21-24°C, track 27-39°C
Best 2008 grid position: 3rd, Jarno Trulli (Malaysia)
Best 2008 race result: 4th, Jarno Trulli (Malaysia)
 Jarno
Trulli (Car 11, Chassis TF108-05)
Summary: Safely through to Q3 and the fourth row PROVISIONAL
GRID: 8th
FP3 5th Best Lap Time: 1m 21.771s (+0.502s) Laps: 21
Q1 2nd Best Lap Time: 1m 21.158s (+0.457s) Laps: 6
Q2 9th Best Lap Time: 1m 20.907s (+0.323s) Laps: 6
Q3 8th Best Lap Time: 1m 22.529s (+0.716s) Laps: 7
"That was a tough session. The wind was affecting the
car balance a lot and this played a major role. Unfortunately
in this type of conditions we have never been very strong
here. We managed to make it into the top ten but I am not
really satisfied with how the session went overall. I was
happy with my lap in Q3 to make the fourth row but it could
be a very difficult race tomorrow. The teams are tightly grouped
but the season is long and hard so we have to do our best
to score points at every race."
Timo Glock (Car 12, Chassis TF108-06)
Summary: Went out in Q2, taking 14th place PROVISIONAL GRID:
14th
FP3 10th Best Lap Time: 1m 22.081s (+0.812s) Laps: 23
Q1 7th Best Lap Time: 1m 21.427s (+0.726s) Laps: 10
Q2 14th Best Lap Time: 1m 21.230s (+0.636s) Laps: 6
"Clearly our goal was to be in the top ten but it didn't
work out. Q1 wasn't too bad but Q2 didn't go according to
plan. On the second run we didn't make any mistakes but for
some reason I couldn't improve my time - and it looked like
the same thing happened to Jarno on that lap. I have no explanation
because the feeling was good on the out lap. But when I came
through turns one, two and three I felt the car sliding more
and the time didn't come. From 14th it is difficult but in
Bahrain I came from 13th to 9th so it is possible to move
up."
Pascal Vasselon - Senior General Manager Chassis
"Barcelona is the circuit where we spend most of our
winter time testing. Yet almost every season when we come
here for the race we have to redo everything because the track
conditions change so much. Yesterday we had to revisit most
of the set-up directions that we had taken - like most of
the other teams. We've done an average job because the final
result is not too bad but not good either. Jarno did very
well to end up on the fourth row. Timo had a good start to
qualifying but unfortunately he did not improve in the second
outing of Q2 when most of the others did improve. Now I'm
curious to see where the cars will stop tomorrow because it
seems there may be different fuel levels at play. The tyre
situation is the only thing which will be as expected and
it is not hard to know what the main race tyre will be tomorrow.
Now we will push as hard as ever for a strong result."
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