A busy day in Bahrain saw both Sahara Force Indias inside the top ten during todays free practice sessions ahead of Sundays Bahrain Grand Prix.

 Paul Di Resta   VJM06-04

FP1:     1:34.949            P5        15 laps

FP2:     1:34.543            P5        35 laps

Paul: As Fridays go its been positive and weve achieved as much as we could realistically have hoped for. The car is working well and responding as we expected, and weve already got a reasonable idea of where we stand. There is still some optimising to do, as always, but if we can take another step forward tonight we should be in a strong position going into qualifying.

Adrian Sutil      VJM06-03

FP1:     1:35.119            P7        17 laps

FP2:     1:34.932            P9        33 laps

Adrian: Lots of laps and lots of things to evaluate today, but Im still not totally comfortable with the car either for short or long runs. It all feels very low grip at the moment so the set-up is not quite right for me yet. As for the tyres, there are no real concerns. My long runs looked competitive and both the medium and hard compounds seem to be working well for us in the high temperatures as they did in Malaysia.

Jakob Andreasen, Chief Race Engineer

A very straightforward couple of sessions and overall we are feeling happy with how things have gone. The aero programme this morning helped to address some of the unanswered questions from China and allowed us to learn more about some of the new parts we have tried on the car recently. We also tested all our cooling solutions and dont anticipate any issues during the race. As usual, we switched to tyre evaluation this afternoon and both cars managed to complete long runs on both tyre compounds. It was a slick session and sets us up nicely for tomorrow. With a few more tweaks overnight we should be able to keep up the momentum and get both cars in Q3 tomorrow afternoon.