British Grand Prix - Qualifying Round-Up
Today's Weather: Wet morning and further spots of rain in
Q1, then dry. Air 19-20°C, track 22-32°C Best 2008
grid position: 3rd Jarno Trulli (Malaysia) Best 2008 race
result: 3rd Jarno Trulli (France)
Timo Glock (Car 12, Chassis TF108-02)
Summary: Finished just outside the top ten in Q2 PROVISIONAL
GRID: 12th
FP3 8th Best Lap Time: 1m 22.183s (+1.443s) Laps: 21
Q1 9th Best Lap Time: 1m 20.893s (+0.936s) Laps: 8
Q2 12th Best Lap Time: 1m 20.274s (+0.747s) Laps: 6
"Following our problems yesterday, when we missed half
the day's practice, today was another difficult day. A lot
of cars were close together and we just failed to reach Q3
so the running time that we missed probably had an effect.
Still, we had quite a good pace this morning and my feeling
was that we would be in the top ten. So I don't know why it
didn't work out. After today's rain, the track was a bit more
green. In those conditions we don't seem to be able to get
100 percent out of the tyres and perhaps that is why we struggled.
We will have to see how the weather is tomorrow but the race
could be quite tricky."
Jarno Trulli (Car 11, Chassis TF108-05)
Summary: Missed out on Q3 for only the second time this year
PROVISIONAL GRID: 14th
FP3 14th Best Lap Time: 1m 22.556s (+1.816s) Laps: 20
Q1 13th Best Lap Time: 1m 21.145s (+1.188) Laps: 7
Q2 14th Best Lap Time: 1m 20.601s (+1.064s) Laps: 6
"I am disappointed because we are out of the top ten
and we haven't looked very competitive here. We understood
what happened yesterday and these things happen, no problem.
But I've struggled a lot this weekend with car balance. Qualifying
was not great and the car was bottoming too much in the first
sector. That cost me time which I could not recover in the
rest of the lap. That is strange because we didn't change
the car itself. It's difficult to find the right set-up when
the wind changes so much but I went for a wet set-up in case
we have a wet race tomorrow. Now I just hope that will pay
off and our Sunday will be better."
Pascal Vasselon - Senior General Manager Chassis
"That was clearly not the result we expected after last
week's test here which was in line with our performance in
Magny-Cours. We had a difficult Friday for various reasons
on both cars but we had every indication that we would recover
from that. This morning our usual preparations in P3 went
well, but what happened in qualifying did not reflect that.
The weather disturbed a bit of Q1 but we had a clear forecast
and managed those conditions well so that did not affect the
result. So now we need to go back to work and understand what
has happened because that is really not where we wanted to
be here. Of course the weather is uncertain to say the least
so anything can happen and we'll see how we can best benefit
from the conditions tomorrow."
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