10 June: Canadian Grand Prix - Friday Practice
Report - Ferrari
Free practice - First session Michael Schumacher: 5th 1.16.872 12 laps chassis 245 Rubens
Barrichello: 10th 1.17.541 11 laps chassis 246 Temperatures: air 28 °C, track 37/36 °C
Free practice – Second
session Rubens Barrichello: 10th 1.16.459 23 laps chassis 246 Michael Schumacher: 16th 1.17.200 26 laps chassis 245 Temperatures:
air 30/31 °C, track 41/42 °C
Jean Todt: “As usual, today’s work centred on fine tuning the set-up of the cars
and evaluating the two types of tyre available to us. Although, we have to take into account the unknown factor of what fuel load
everyone is running, it is clear we were expecting better. Now we have to study today’s data carefully.”
Rubens
Barrichello: “In terms of getting our work done, we did a good job, but we still have to sort out and understand a problem
I have with the brakes. Apart from that, it seems we do not have a very competitive car here, but we are working flat-out to sort it
out and there are plenty of reasons to be confident that tomorrow we can do much better.”
Michael Schumacher: “We
are not looking too competitive here, looking at the lap times. I did not get the best out of my new set of tyres this afternoon, as
I went out early on when the track was not yet at its best. But if you look at Rubens’ time, which he set on the same tyres much
later in the session, it looks a bit better. On a positive note, we got through all our programme. I would say the new surface is a
clear improvement on the old one in terms of bumps.”
Ross Brawn: “We had a relatively trouble-free practice
today, although Rubens was not entirely happy with the brakes on his car. That obviously causes problems, especially on a circuit
like this, so we will have to fix that for tomorrow. We did some long distance runs and picked up all the data we need regarding
tyres. Now, we have to look at wear rates and tyre consistency and make our choice, from the two types available. One of the tyres
was graining a bit, so we have to calculate if that is a situation that will go away by Sunday. Generally, the balance of the cars
was good.”
