AT&T Williams Team Reactions Friday Practice
By Williams F1 Team
September 12 2008
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Reactions: Italian GP Friday
Practice |
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After a deluge of rain this
morning prematurely curtailed the first practice session for the Italian
GP, the AT&T Williams team took to the drying Monza track after lunch to
advance their preparations for tomorrow’s qualifying session. Both Nico
Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima had a constructive day in the car, with Nico
in the top five times in both sessions and Kazuki looking to convert his
set-up progression into lap times in tomorrow’s final practice. |
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Nico Rosberg:
"I
think we have started the weekend well. In the morning session in the
wet, we were pretty quick and I felt very comfortable in the car, so
even if it rains in the race, we can be pretty strong here. We weren’t
too bad this afternoon in the drier conditions either, and despite the
weather over the day, we managed to fit everything in, so practice was
really well managed by the team. The car has good balance, but of course
we still need to fine tune this a little bit. In terms of performance,
we are definitely looking better than we have done of late. The Toyota
engine is making a good contribution and because the car is performing
well for this one-off low downforce race, we need to make the best of
it."
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Kazuki Nakajima:
"The
conditions have been quite tricky today, but thankfully we found time to
do some dry running towards the end of the afternoon practice. The
overall feeling from the car is not at all bad and the lap time was
coming, but I never really had enough clear track to get my times down.
Tomorrow’s last practice before qualifying will be important for me to
continue the progress we made today."
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Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1
 "It
was a rain interrupted programme, but we managed to get through all of
the work as most of it was covered at the test two weeks ago. This
morning allowed us to generate some good wet running data and this
afternoon we completed a compressed dry tyre programme. It’s too early
to tell where anyone is because of the changeable weather conditions
over the day, but from here we will now concentrate on generating some
more performance for tomorrow’s qualifying."
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| Position |
Driver & Lap Time (Session 1) |
Driver & Lap Time (Session 2) |
| 1 |
A Sutil: 1:32.842 |
K Raikkonen:
1:23.861 |
| 2 |
R Barrichello: 1:33.428 |
R Kubica:
1:23.931 |
| 3 |
G Fisichella: 1:33.695 |
N Heidfeld
1:23.947 |
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