Jaime Alguersuari (STR5-03)“Another new circuit for me: it’s impressive, tough and technical but enjoyable todrive. Today went well for me, as we completed a lot of work, trying different fuelloads and working on set-up, as well as a tyre comparison. The hard tyredefinitely takes a lot longer to come up to temperature, while the soft tyre seemedto work very well for us and should be good in the race. We still have work to doto improve tomorrow, but I am happy with what we have achieved so far.”First Practice Session - Best lap 1.38.161, pos. 11th, 19 lapsSecond Practice Session - Best lap 1.36.377, pos. 8th, 43 laps

Sebastien Buemi (STR5-01)“There’s not much to say about what happened in FP1. I braked, the wheelscame off and that was it. Physically, I was fine though. But I have to say, I amextremely disappointed that, once again, through no fault of my own, I have beenunable to run for almost all of the three hours available. I will have to try andcatch up on Saturday morning and we will be relying on Jaime’s data from todayto see which way to go.”First Practice Session - Best lap 1.39.939, pos. 17th, 5 lapsSecond Practice Session – No time

Giorgio Ascanelli: “Sebastien’s accident this morning was down to a technicalproblem on the right hand upright, which proved simple to identify once we gotthe car back. We have resolved the problem, which the many laps completed byJaime this afternoon confirms. Sebastien’s FP1 session was interrupted shortlyafter the start because of a fluid leak around the pedal area, which we discoveredafter his installation lap. Apart from the upright, the afternoon accident causedsome damage to the gearbox and a combination of fixing this problem andchanging the front end meant that, despite the best efforts of the mechanics, wecould not get Seb out before the end of the day. Fortunately, Jaime did a lot oflaps in a trouble free session, after we had stopped him as a precaution towardsthe end of FP1, until we had identified the problem on his team-mate’s car. Forhis debut on this circuit, Jaime did quite a good job today.”