Driver Quotes after Quali

By Naughtynat
August 26 2006

DAVID COULTHARD, Position 17th
“Under normal conditions, I think I would have made it through to the next session today. My first run was a
little bit messy, but on my second, a Super Aguri went off the circuit in Turn eight in front of me, so I had to
lift off. As a result I dropped half a second and couldn’t win it back through the rest of the lap. I tried to push
again on the next lap, but by then my tyres had lost performance, it’s just one of things unfortunately.”

CHRISTIAN KLIEN, Position 11th
“I’m very happy about the qualifying result. I think I’ll start tomorrow in P10 due to another driver’s engine
change. Every time I went out on new tyres today I improved. We changed the front wing a little, as there
was some understeer when we tried to push harder and by the end I had quite good balance. I think we got
everything out of the car that we could. My team did a good job and supported me well, and hopefully we
can have a good race from this position tomorrow.”

CHRISTIAN HORNER, “It was unfortunate for David to be delayed by Sato who went off in front of him at
Turn eight. He was looking as if he would have comfortably made the cut to the second session. Christian
optimised his car’s set up and did a good job. He was unfortunate to narrowly miss out on getting through
to the final session. We are now in a position to pick our strategy for tomorrow and will be pushing hard for
points finishes.”