Minardi's Mark Webber managed one of the surprises of practice today
(Thursday) in Monaco, when he posted the eighth fastest time of the day.
"We had a really good day today," he said in a press release. "We had two
strong sessions with no problems. We had quite a bit of fuel in for the
first session just to get a feeling for a heavier car.
"Then we decided to run with a little bit less fuel in the second session
to get a feeling for qualifying trim. We still have some fuel to take out,
which is nice, but also Michelin have done a really good job by the looks of
it as well.
"I like driving on this track and the engineering guys and mechanics did
a good job, so we're really satisfied with today. If we can do something
like this in terms of a trouble-free run on Saturday, I would say we could
have maybe our best performance in qualifying here.
"Obviously, we'll have to see what happens. It's likely to be a different
story Saturday, but hopefully we can still do well."
Yoong was 22nd after impacting heavily with the barriers in session two.
"I really like Monaco and we had a good start with a productive session this
morning. Unfortunately, early in the second session I was trying a little
bit different line and the car just got away under braking," he said.
"It was unfortunate because I really want to make maximum use of the
track time available here. I'll just have to redouble my efforts on Saturday
and make up for lost time." |
