Monza Day 1: Hispania Racing report
Sep.10 (Hispania Racing) Two weeks after the Belgian Grand Prix, Hispania Racing, HRT F1 Team is back in action making its debut in Monza. In the first practice session, both drivers of the Spanish team, Bruno Senna and Sakon Yamamoto, were able to get experience on this high speed circuit. In the morning, the Brazilian [...]
Monza Day 1: Toro Rosso report
Sep.10 (Red Bull Media) The Scuderia Toro Rosso team and drivers reflect on the first day of practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Sebastien Buemi (STR5-02) “We started the morning with some new components to try on the car, specifically a low exhaust configuration and an F-duct, which we are just beginning to [...]
Monza Day 1: Red Bull report
Sep.10 (Red Bull Media) The Red Bull Racing team and drivers reflect on the first day of practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Car 6 Mark Webber “I lost water pressure in P2 and had to stop the car, which compromised our running a little bit, but we still got some good information [...]
Monza Day 1: Renault report
Sep.10 (Renault) The Renault F1 team and drivers reflect on the first day of practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Robert Kubica, R30-02 Monza is an unusual circuit because of the aero levels we run and also the feeling for the drivers. We have to get used to the car with low downforce [...]
Monza Day 1: Mercedes GP report
Sep.10 (Mercedes GP Petronas) The final European race weekend of the season began today at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in northern Italy. Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher focused on evaluating the set-up and balance of their MGP W01 cars which ran in a special low-downforce configuration required for the high-speed nature of the Monza [...]
Monza Day 1: Williams report
Sep.10 (AT&T Williams) AT&T Williams team and drivers reflect on the first day of practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Sam Michael, Technical Director: Today was a good day’s work from the team to get through all of our programme, which included checking new aero parts, set-up and evaluating drag level. We had [...]
Monza Day 1: McLaren report
Sep.10 (McLaren Mercedes) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team and drivers reflect on the first day of practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Lewis Hamilton: MP4-25A-04 “We had two good practice sessions today. This morning, in P1, we ran with the higher-downforce package, and the car felt good, but it wasn’t as fast along the [...]
Monza Day 1: Force India report
Sep.10 (Force India) The Force India F1 Teams Italian Grand Prix preparations got underway today at the historic and atmospheric Monza circuit just outside Milan. All the teams prepare unique low downforce packages for this race, and with no testing, there was a lot of work to do. As for several other teams, the priority [...]
Monza Day 1: Sauber report
Sep.10 (Sauber) Apart from the usual preparation work and tyre evaluation, both drivers used the first two free practice sessions on the famous high speed circuit in Monza to try the various options of the low drag aerodynamic package. Pedro de la Rosa: C29.03 / Ferrari 056 1st Practice: 15th / 1:25.320 (20 laps) / [...]