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F1: Team-by-team summary: Friday, GP of Spain

4-25-2008

by Auto123.com

Team-by-team summary of the two Free Practice sessions of Friday at the Grand Prix of Spain.

by GMM

FERRARI
Kimi Raikkonen at Barcelona is the man of the moment; the quickest driver at the wheel of the quickest car. Felipe Massa - who turned 27 today - was close in the morning, but he made a few too many mistakes.

RENAULT
Both cars were in the top seven in the morning, and the top three in the afternoon, with Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet incredibly closely matched for pace. But engineering chief Pat Symonds warned: "Friday does not necessarily represent the complete picture."

WILLIAMS-TOYOTA
A promising showing, with both runners inside the afternoon top seven, and Kazuki Nakajima conspicuous in fourth.

RED BULL-RENAULT
Mark Webber is hopeful of making Q3 after going sixth quickest in the afternoon session. David Coulthard was eighth best in both 90 minute practices.

Adrian Sutil at the wheel of the Ferrari-powered Force India car.
FORCE INDIA-FERRARI
Preparations for qualifying propelled both Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil respectively inside the top ten. "I think we are a lot more competitive than we expected to be," said technical boss Mike Gascoyne.

MCLAREN-MERCEDES
A bad day for Heikki Kovalainen; off Lewis Hamilton's pace in the morning, a rear-end change in the break, and finally stranded beside the circuit with a throttle problem after just eight laps in the afternoon. Hamilton was third in the morning but eleventh at the end of the second 90 minute session. "There was too much oversteer and we tried a lot of different things to improve but didn't make the progress we wanted," he said.

BMW-SAUBER
Neither driver shone in the afternoon, as they concentrated on race setup. Robert Kubica again appears to have the edge over Nick Heidfeld, and his best showing was fourth in the morning session.

TOYOTA
Not a good day for the Japanese team, with Timo Glock only managing to outpace the slow Super Aguris in the afternoon despite putting in a lot of laps. "I don't think it is as bad as the timesheets show today," cautioned chief engineer Dieter Gass.
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