Ferrari Drivers Confident Despite Pace


By Dale Calkins
May 25 2007

Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa are confident ahead of Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, despite a rather slow start to the weekend during practice. The Scuderia is by no means out of contention, though it is clear that McLaren is very strong this weekend and that Raikkonen and Massa will have to push hard to close the gap.

Ferrari Drivers
Confident
Despite Pace

Kimi Raikkonen
FP 1: 5th + 0'00.945
FP 2: 2nd + 0'00.275

"I am reasonably happy with how things went in free practice today. We have found a good balance on the car right from the morning session and we have completed all the programme we had planned for the day. As usual, it is too early to draw conclusions as to how the rest of the weekend will go, because we don't know what our closest rivals have done and also because the track conditions change a lot from Thursday to Saturday. All in all, a good start to the weekend."

Felipe Massa
FP 1: 8th + 0'01.216
FP 2: 6th + 0'00.844

"I didn't manage to exploit all the car's potential, partly because I always had traffic when I was running in the second session with new tyres. Unfortunately, on this special track, traffic can cost you an awful lot of time. Over a long run, the situation seems good, but we still have work to do on finding the right balance of the car and that includes also on the first lap on new tyres. All the same, I am confident.
"

Hopefully the Monaco practice session was like that of the sessions in Spain. Even though Ferrari was slow in practice for that Grand Prix, they turned things around and were dominant in qualifying and the race. Qualifying will be the most important focus for Ferrari as the need to be at the front in Monaco is paramount.

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