Timo Glock (21st): “It has been a reasonable day for us apart from the gearbox problem that we had this afternoon. Apart from that the car didn’t feel too bad. It’s difficult to comment on our pace because I lost some time at the end of the session and didn’t get my Option run, but in general I’m happy with the first laps of the weekend and we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.”
Lucas di Grassi (22nd): “Today was a very good day and we achieved everything that we needed to from our programme. We didn’t experience any major problems, so I’m pleased with the work we have done so far and I’m looking forward to seeing how we can improve for tomorrow.”
Nick Wirth, Technical Director: “Timo lost fifth gear in the middle of the second Free Practice session, which spoiled what was otherwise a very satisfying day. We really have been focusing on understanding our first major performance upgrade of the year and it seems to be giving us the sort of advantages we had seen in our research. The team has done a good job getting a solid body of knowledge around it, and I think we have enough data to get a good qualifying and race set-up. In theory the car should be better again when we start running low fuel, so I’m expecting to see some progress in qualifying tomorrow. Our attentions this evening will be focused on understanding the nature of Timo’s gearbox failure and preparing the cars for what should be an interesting day tomorrow.”
