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Ferrari 2nd Fastest In Bahrain
By Dale Calkins
March 10 2006
Ferrari was on the pace today in Bahrain with Michael Schumacher 2nd and Felipe Massa 4th in Free Practice 2. It appears as though Ferrari will indeed be quick this weekend as they were fastest of the actual race drivers.
Ferrari was on the pace today in Bahrain with Michael Schumacher 2nd and Felipe Massa 4th in the Free Practice 2. It appears as though Ferrari will indeed be quick this weekend as they were fastest of the actual race drivers.

Ferrari 2nd Fastest In Bahrain

Dale Calkins
Michael Schumacher
FP 1: 4th - 1'33.469
FP 2: 2nd - 1'31.751

Michael Schumacher was indeed quick during both of the Friday Free Practice sessions. Slower than Kubica and Wurz the test drivers for BMW Sauber and Williams respectively, he was only eight hundredths of a second slower than Kimi Raikkonen in the first session. In the second session, Michael was only four tenths slower than Anthony Davidson, test driver for Honda. Here is what the 7-Time World Champion had to say about his sessions:

"It’s been a fairly positive day for us. We’ve completed the programme that we had planned for ourselves and we worked well, so I’m obviously satisfied with the way things went. I think that, compared to the other teams, we are looking competitive but in order to see whether we really are quick enough to aim for the top, we need to wait till everybody is running on low fuel and with new tyres. I still reckon that there are four teams capable of winning even if today perhaps some of them didn’t want to reveal all their potential: what is clear however is that Renault seem to be very quick straight out of the box which gives them an edge."

Felipe Massa
FP 1: 8th - 1'34.925
FP 2: 4th - 1'32.175

This was Felipe Massa's first day racing for the Scuderia and it turned out to be a positive day of running indeed. In the second session, he was only slower than Schumacher and two test drivers, an impressive drive for only his second practice session with Ferrari. Here is what the young Brazilian had to say after his first day:

"Towards the end of the second practice session I managed to find a good set-up for the car. In the first session and during the first part of the second one we were not really able to extract all the potential out of the car. I think that I could have set an even better time but on the whole I’m satisfied with what we’ve achieved so far because I feel that we now have a good foundation on which we can build in preparation for tomorrow’s qualifying and the race on Sunday."

Ross Brawn
Technical Director

Ferrari's Technical Director Ross Brawn was quite pleased with today's running and believes a very good race is in store for the team. Here is what Ross had to say:

"I think we found the balance of the car fairly quickly, obviously we had the benefits of the test because we’d done a lot of running here during the last few weeks. The track seems to be pretty similar to where we were with the test so that’s encouraging. The tyres seem quite consistent. We had a little problem with some flat-spotting on Felipe’s car. He’s got some issues with the brakes we need to fix but towards the end of the second session we think we found a good balance from which to develop the car from now on. I think we’re in reasonable shape at the moment. If we can keep everything together tomorrow we should have a good race."

March 10, 2006

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