French GP Sauber qualifying notes

Peter Sauber (Team Principal)

I´m happy to have one of our cars in the top 10 here at Magny-Cours, because that was a very tough qualifying session. Congratulations to Nick Heidfeld ^Ö well done! Kimi Räikkönen had a small problem with the balance on his car, otherwise I´m sure the gap between them would have been smaller. I think we are well prepared for tomorrow.

Nick Heidfeld (Driver)

All through qualifying we made little adjustments to the car which improved it each time. My second to last run was pretty good until I came across gravel that somebody had thrown on to the track after the second chicane and lost time. My last run was clear and clean, and I´m satisfied with ninth place because qualifying was very difficult here. We struggled a bit with set-up yesterday, but now I think we are in very good shape for the race.

Kimi Räikkönen (Driver)

I wasn´t quite happy with the balance of my car this afternoon, especially in the first corner which is very quick. The car was just moving around a little too much on the track.

-Sauber