July News 2003
   
Saturday July 12, 2003
Final Day of Testing at Fiorano
Ferrari  concluded  their  testing  session  for  this  week  at the  Fiorano  circuit  today,  where World Champion Michael Schumacher  had  an   intensive   day  of  development  work behind  the  wheel  of  the  F2003-GA.
Michael focused  on  development work with the Bridgestone tyres, the German  covering  a total of 133 laps - 12  of them on the short version of the track-with a best time of 56.974. The Fiorano lap record, set by Schumacher earlier this year, is 56.338.
The team  did not report any problems arising during the day.
Michael said  "I am  confident for  the  British GP, I am sure that  will  we  do  well at  Silverstone. I  heard  about people saying   that  there  is  a  crisis  at  Ferrari  but  that  is  not the case.  We  are  calm  and  working  well.  I am convinced that  when  something  is  not  going  well  we  should not try to  find  only  one  cause.  We know  that we can improve our engine  and  our  chassis   and  that's  our  main  goal   today. We  have  no  problems  with  Bridgestone and I am sure that they  will  respond  in  the  best  possible  way."
Weather:
Sunny .  Air temp.  30/32 °C, Track temp.  51/53/41 °C .