France: We are not happy

Disappointed HHF
By Phil Huff (05/07/2003)
July 5 2003

The Sauber Petronas drivers Nick Heidfeld and Heinz-Harald Frentzen will start tomorrow's French Grand Prix in 15th and 16th places respectively after the second qualifying session.

Nick Heidfeld commented "I think I had a good run but nevertheless I am not happy with my result. I am now hoping for a problem-free race, such as I had at the Nurburgring a week ago which proved that we can perform well under good conditions. But we have to wait and see how it will be tomorrow."

Heinz-Harald Frentzen said "I had a good lap, but it was impossible to achieve more today. My car suffered from understeer and some tyre graining, but we expected that."

Peter Sauber, Team Principal, added "We are not happy with these positions, that's for sure. But from a factual point of view we had to expect them. We were hoping to get closer to the BAR cars. But the clear difference to the first half of the table is a matter of tyres, rather than the performance of the car itself."