2004 August News
   
Saturday August 28, 2004
Michael  "I am pretty happy"
Michael said "We obviously have a big challenge in front of us tomorrow because we know both the Renault guys are good starters so we hope we can compete and then we will find out how the race goes, It is a lottery, in a way. Just 10 minutes to the end we got an extra splash of rain, which was not supposed to be, but, anyway, we are in the first row, second position, and with the conditions I think we can be quite happy. It was actually not so fantastic, I struggled a little bit at the top of the hill into turn five, I got a bit sideways and lost the grip there, lost a couple of tenths.Then towards the end it got a little bit tricky. As you saw before the conditions seemed to favour to be a little bit quicker in the last sector and I didn't have the traction out of the last corner compared to what those guys had. That is what cost us the time. But I don't think we have to complain because considering the conditions to be in that position I am pretty happy. It was a nice lap for that and we can do everything from there on."
Weather
Intermittent rain,
Air temperature  17 - 18°C .
Track temperature  19 - 10°C.
Humidity 88 - 92% .
 
 
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