French GP Friday Minardi notes

Marc Gene':
"Unfortunately we did not attend last week's testing and we found ourselves at a disadvantage with regard to the other Teams. Without having the adequate points of reference to understand how to face the track in the best way, today's free practice session turned out very hard. Nonetheless I believe we are doing a good work on the car although there is still a lot to be done in order to improve the set-up."

Gaston Mazzacane:
"We have tested a few aerodynamic solutions for the mechanical balance of the car in view of tomorrow's qualifying. We tried to exploit today's free practice sessions as better as we could in order to remedy our lack of testing. It has been certainly penalizing not to test here as the other Teams did, nevertheless I feel fairly optimistic for tomorrow's qualifying and I hope I will do a good job tomorrow morning when I will be focusing on finding the right car set-up."

The T-car (chassis 01) is prepared for Marc Gene.