Ferrari quietly confident yet again
We take a closer look at how the teams fared on Friday
06 April 2007
Kimi Raikkonen added fuel to Ferrari’s fire on Friday when, despite setting the
fourth-fastest time (1m 36.160s) within four-tenths of a second of team mate Felipe Massa (1m 35.780s) in the second practice session, he revealed that he was not happy with his F2007’s performance.
He also reported that, in general, the two Bridgestone tyre specifications (soft and hard for ease of commentary, but actually in the overall perspective of the company’s 2007 offerings, the medium and hard compounds) weren’t a million miles apart, and that he would not, after all, need an engine change.
“The car feels reasonably okay but I’m not 100 percent happy,” he said. “We learned things but there is still work to do. The car felt different to the way it did here last week, the set-up was not as good as it was. The grip’s slightly different.”
Most felt the same as the high track and ambient temperatures hurt grip significantly. Where Renault and Williams got a handle on things, completing the top six with Ferrari,
McLaren appeared to struggle while doing a lot of evaluation of both compounds.
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Friday Practice session-
1. Felipe Massa, Ferrari (1st, 1m 34.972s):
2. Fernando Alonso, McLaren (2nd, 1m 35.220s)
3. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren (3rd, 1m 35.712s)
4. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari (4th, 1m 35.779s)
