source: champcarworldseries.com
Sebastien Bourdais #1 McDonald's Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone
- "Obviously the McDonald's car was awesome today. It's very difficult to say
what the car is doing, because it is so bumpy out there, but it seems to be
quite a bit quicker than the old position. I'm just very happy to secure this
front row spot. It's very important, especially here. We'll see if it opens up.
Tomorrow is going to be a completely different game. Probably we won't see as
many red flags as we did today because it's difficult to understand what you
need to do and when you need to go, and when you think you've got the break,
well, the red flag comes out and everything has to be done again. It's quite
difficult, but the car seems fine and the grid position is good. So we are
starting out on a good note, and we'll see if we can finish on a good note."
Bruno Junqueira #2 Newman/Haas Racing Ford-Cosworth/Bridgestone/Lola
- "My night was good. This morning I had some problems, something that broke on
the car. But tonight, we played a gamble to go early, but there were two red
flags straight away. I was able to do one lap that was still not as fast. The
session was really hard with all the red flags. I was lucky that I think I had
the second position already, but to improve the lap time I could get one lap in
two corners. I think it was good. I'm very pleased that Newman/Haas worked very
hard and everyone on the team to come here just on the first day. Tomorrow I
have to work a little bit harder. "
Paul Tracy #3 INDECK Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone - "I
think it started out okay. Obviously we're not as quick as we want to be in
comparison to Newman/Haas, but to the rest of the group we're where we needed to
be. We improved from this morning. We were really struggling on the bumps,
getting the car to be compliant, yet still be in control and have grip is the
problem here. We made a lot of changes, changed shocks, changed springs, changed
stiff setting, a lot of different things. The car wasn't very good in warmup
still, and we made another change in qualifying which seemed to bring it to
life. It's getting there, but we still have some work to do."