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Hungarian
Grand Prix — free practice
July 29, 2005
Jordan Grand Prix
drivers launched into the opening day of the Hungarian
Grand Prix, which celebrates its 20th birthday this
year, and made steady progress during Friday’s
two one-hour sessions in very hot weather conditions.
Nicolas Kiesa completed the biggest number of laps in
the first session (19) but experienced a spin at the
end, as many other drivers did, due to the dirty and
dusty surface of the track. The three drivers spent
time adjusting their cars and evaluating different types
of Bridgestone tyres. The team is relatively satisfied
with their Friday technical programme and looks forward
to making further progress tomorrow.
Free practice 1
| Narain Karthikeyan (EJ15/01) |
18th |
1:26.130 |
14 laps |
| Tiago Monteiro (EJ15/03) |
20th |
1:27.344 |
08 laps |
| Nicolas Kiesa (EJ15/04) |
22nd |
1:28.230 |
19 laps |
Free practice
2
| Tiago Monteiro (EJ15/03) |
21st |
1:24.862 |
24 laps |
| Narain Karthikeyan (EJ15/01) |
22nd |
1:25.184 |
25 laps |
| Nicolas Kiesa (EJ15/04) |
23rd |
1:25.269 |
17 laps |
Team quotes
on the Hungarian Grand Prix Friday free practice sessions
Narain Karthikeyan
“The track here in Hungary is quite difficult
to learn for newcomers, as you have a lot of corners,
chicanes and bumps. Therefore, you have to do as many
laps as possible and this is what I have tried to do.
I will sleep on it tonight and see how I can drive tomorrow.
I will also have to sort out some handling issues for
tomorrow but I am pretty confident.”
Tiago Monteiro
“As we expected it, it will be a very difficult
weekend because the track is very technical and also
because of the heat. It is hard for the car, the engine,
the tyres and all of us. This morning the circuit was
so dirty, I could not say anything about the car. I
also had a few small technical issues, which prevented
me from doing as much running as I wished. However,
we managed to do everything we wanted in the afternoon
session. It is not very easy to find the right set-
up here as there are so many different corners but we
have collected a lot of data that we need to analyse
now.”
Nicolas Kiesa
“I was very encouraged at the end of the second
session as I was quite close to Narain. It is not an
easy task, as I haven’t driven for a year and a
half in Formula One. It feels very fast and I need to
adapt not only to a F1 car but also to a completely
new team crew and procedures. We have had a pretty good
session and I am confident about our tyre choice. If
I were a race driver, I would know which Bridgestone
tyre set to choose. I know tyres play an important role
here, so I will try to help the team in their choice.”
Sporting director: Adrian Burgess
“Hungary being what it is, temperatures have
been very high today. The track surface was very dirty
and dusty this morning, which limited our running. We
had a small problem with Tiago in the first session,
which was solved for the afternoon. The drivers have
also gained more confidence. Narain has never driven
here and he learnt the layout very quickly. All of them
have done a good job and now we have to make the right
choices for tomorrow’s qualifying and Sunday’s
race.”
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