Progress continued
apace for the
Minardi F1 Team today at the
Hungaroring,
drivers
Christijan Albers and
Robert
Doornbos taking up where they
left off at the end of Friday’s initial
two free practice sessions. After making
further chassis adjustments on Saturday
morning, both drivers carried out
qualifying simulation runs with new
tyres fitted to their cars, posting
promising lap times in the process. Come
the afternoon qualifying session, and
Albers put in another committed
performance, to secure 17th place on the
starting grid for the Hungarian Grand
Prix, while brake lock-ups approaching
Turn 1 and Turn 12 lost Doornbos time on
what was shaping up to be an impressive
lap. As a result, he will start 19th in
tomorrow’s race.
CHRISTIJAN
ALBERS (Best lap: 1 min 24.443 secs;
Position: 17th)
“I’m glad today’s
qualifying went well, and now we’ll wait
to see how the performance of the car is
in the race tomorrow. We had some bad
luck at the beginning of the weekend and
lost quite a bit of time in the garage
on Friday, but hopefully, we can get it
together for the race so the car remains
well balanced.”
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After making further chassis
adjustments on Saturday morning, Minardi driver's
Christijan Albers and Robert Doornbos carried out
qualifying simulation runs with new tyres fitted to
their cars, posting very promising
lap times |
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Progress
continued apace for the
Minardi F1 Team today at the Hungaroring,
drivers Christijan
Albers and Robert
Doornbos taking up where they left off on Friday
afternoon |
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ROBERT DOORNBOS (Best lap: 1 min 25.484 secs; Position:
19th)
“We did some good
work this morning and I think found a good race set-up for
the car. We had to make a slight compromise for qualifying,
and I had a bit of a moment in Turn One with the brakes and
ran wide. I tried to recover the rest of the lap, but then
had another moment in the third sector. I therefore couldn’t
get the optimum lap time, as I would have liked, but for the
race, on used tyres, the car is very good, so we are
definitely feeling optimistic for tomorrow.”
PAUL STODDART, Team Principal,
Minardi Cosworth
“Another strong performance from the
Minardi drivers in qualifying saw Christijan ahead of our
nearest rivals and Robert split the Jordans after he made a
small mistake under braking in the first sector of his
qualifying lap. Overall, the team’s performance has been
strong so far this weekend, and with continuing improvements
to the car and a sensible strategy for tomorrow’s 20th
Hungarian Grand Prix, we are looking forward to the race.” |
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