Formula 1
British GP Friday Tyrrell notes
British Grand Prix Friday 14 July 1995 Katayama qualifies 14th, Salo robbed by Sunshine Ukyo Katayama and Mika Salo recorded the 14th and 15th fastest time in Friday's first qualifying session for the British Grand Prix. Both drivers set the ...
Edited: May 8, 2001, 12:19 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
British Grand Prix Friday 14 July 1995
Katayama qualifies 14th, Salo robbed by Sunshine Ukyo Katayama and Mika Salo recorded the 14th and 15th fastest time in
Friday's first qualifying session for the British Grand Prix. Both drivers set the best time on the first flying lap using their second set of tyres. Ukyo's best time was 1 min 32.087 sec and Mika's 1 min 32.093 sec. Unfortunately, Mika Salo was disqualified by the stewards after he finished his second run. Coming back into the pits after his first run, Mika only saw the red lights indicating the marshals wanted to check the car's weight as he passed it. He stopped but thought it was too late to reverse and drove back into the Tyrrell garage.
Mika Salo: "With the sun shining so brightly, I didn't see the red light until I was passing it. I stopped in the pit lane thinking some marshals might push be back, but it was too late and I drove back into the garage. The car is getting better after each run. On my last run I used old tyres because there was no point in wasting a new set after being disqualified." Ukyo Katayama: "I am still not 100% satisfied with the balance of the car. We improved the set-up today, but we need to work more for final qualifying. I am confident we can improve our times by one second with a better set-up and hope to qualify in the top ten."
Harvey Postlethwaite, Managing Director - Engineering: "We still haven't found the right balance on the car. We need to work more. It's a shame for Mika because the sun was very bright and it was difficult to see the stop light against the sun and he was not the only driver who had difficulty into seeing it. But easily there is no excuse for shooting a red light - but it is part of Mika's learning curve."
Mr Kimura - Yamaha F1 Project Leader: "From a technical perspective we are pleased with today's proceedings as the B-spec engines are performing reliably. This afternoon we tried to make best-use of our engine's torque by changing the gear ratios and tomorrow we expect to improve."
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article CHAMPCAR/CART: Villeneuve to drive in F1 in 1996
Next article Argentinian GP fastest laps
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Mika Salo
Which modern Formula 1 driver raced for the most teams?
Formula 1
Formula 1
Which modern Formula 1 driver raced for the most teams?
Salo to race alongside son Max in Fuji 24 Hours
Super Taikyu
Super Taikyu
Salo to race alongside son Max in Fuji 24 Hours
F1 career in numbers: Mika Salo
Formula 1
Formula 1
F1 career in numbers: Mika Salo
Latest news
‘I’m sideways all the time’ – How Alpine’s feral F1 car plagued Pierre Gasly in Singapore
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Singapore GP
38 min
‘I’m sideways all the time’ – How Alpine’s feral F1 car plagued Pierre Gasly in Singapore
Pedro Acosta proposes new idea for monitoring tyre pressure in MotoGP
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP 1 h
Pedro Acosta proposes new idea for monitoring tyre pressure in MotoGP
“Just a disaster” – How Isack Hadjar’s nightmare Singapore F1 weekend unfolded
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Singapore GP
1 h
“Just a disaster” – How Isack Hadjar’s nightmare Singapore F1 weekend unfolded
Feature
Discover prime content
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe