2009 Italian GP, practice: Force India quotes 

Written by Nick on September 11th, 2009 at 5:19 pmLast Update: September 11th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

Dominic Harlow: “A very good first day back in a race seat for Tonio, and a productive programme from Adrian. We lost some time with Adrian’s car at the start of FP2 following a planned engine change, but once back on track he made good progress. The car seems to be performing well at lower downforce in race trim, but as usual at this demanding circuit there is plenty of work to do to prepare for qualifying.”

Tonio Liuzzi: “Today was much better than the straight line testing! It’s a completely different approach as you get used to the rhythm, the braking points and I think it’s a great challenge. We went for longer runs and covering a race distance and everything is going in the right direction. For now I am taking it a bit easy as I want to get used to the tyres and the car and tomorrow we will work on the lap time for qualifying. We knew we would have a competitive car and I felt the balance was good, and there is still at least half a second more as I had some traffic on some of my fastest laps. It’s just the beginning of the weekend but I am really happy about how it went. I think the car is responding really well and we are optimistic for tomorrow.”

Adrian Sutil: “Everything went well today. The car was working perfectly and we can be very happy about the result. It was a very, very good time that came as a result of some good work, a great set-up and getting the tyres to work well. We didn’t try specifically to go fastest but if you are on top of your game and the car is working well there’s no reason why you couldn’t be P1 at the end of the session. It was a very productive day on a very cool track and it’s good to have some fun right now.

source: Force India

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