Heikki Kovalainen, car 20, chassis CT01-#3: “I’m reasonably positive about today. We didn’t get everything we could out of the car in Q1 but it felt better this afternoon than it did in FP3 and on my last quick lap I was held up by an HRT which probably cost me something like six tenths, but around this sort of circuit that’s one of the issues you have to deal with. There are quite a few positives to take out of today, the main one being that we know we’re much closer to the cars in front than where we finished last year, and now we have KERS and a better package overall, so I think tomorrow’s race could be really interesting.”
Vitaly Petrov, car 21, chassis CT01-#2: “For me that was an ok qualifying, maybe not quite what we had hoped for but we know there’s more to come. We obviously lost time yesterday, and today the performance run was cut short in FP3 with a hydraulics issue, but I pushed as hard as I could and I think my engineer and I are finding out more about how to fine tune the setup for me every time I go out on track so the more time I spend in the car, the better I’m feeling.”