Formula 1
French GP Tyrrell notes
French Grand Prix Sunday 2 July 1995 Another Race Finish For Mika Salo Today s French Grand Prix was difficult for the Nokia Tyrrell Yamaha team. Mika Salo drove a strong and reliable race but suffered a lack of speed and traction. Mika ...
Edited: May 8, 2001, 12:19 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
French Grand Prix Sunday 2 July 1995
Another Race Finish For Mika Salo
Today s French Grand Prix was difficult for the Nokia Tyrrell Yamaha team. Mika Salo drove a strong and reliable race but suffered a lack of speed and traction. Mika stopped twice for fuel and tyres, on laps 25 and 48. Ukyo Katayama made a good start but was forced to retire after Taki Inoue pushed him off the track at the first corner.
Mika Salo: "It was difficult race because the balance of the car was not as good as yesterday and I was lacking traction and speed. I cannot wait to test at Silverstone to improve our pace before the team s home Grand Prix."
Ukyo Katayama: "I made a good start and overtook Inoue and Badoer. As I entered the first corner, I was hit at the back of the left hand side of my car and was pushed off the track. I spoke with Taki Inoue. He agreed it was his mistake and apologized."
Harvey Postlethwaite, Managing Director - Engineering: "We had a difficult day. We need to improve the performance of the car. We are working very hard to understand which areas we are losing out in. We made good progress to ensure that the car finishes the race and we are looking forward to a test at the end of next week at Silverstone."
Mr Kimura - Yamaha F1 Project Leader: "Unfortunately Ukyo s race was ended prematurely on the very first lap for which we are pretty sorry. Mika had a consistent race and our work on engine reliability has paid dividends. Now we must work on improving our speed before the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 16th."
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
Taki Inoue
Controversy explodes with new 'double points' finale
Formula 1
Formula 1
Controversy explodes with new 'double points' finale
Fingers point at Pirelli after 'odd' qualifying
Formula 1
Formula 1
Fingers point at Pirelli after 'odd' qualifying
Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 5/15/96), Part 1/2
Formula 1
Formula 1
Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 5/15/96), Part 1/2
Latest news
Ducati rubbishes claim 2026 MotoGP bike built specifically for Marc Marquez
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP
Indonesian GP
2 min
Ducati rubbishes claim 2026 MotoGP bike built specifically for Marc Marquez
Toyota: BMW has advantage in Barcelona WEC after private test
WEC
WEC WEC
Barcelona
58 min
Toyota: BMW has advantage in Barcelona WEC after private test
Preining jokes about why he let team-mate Feller through
DTM
DTM DTM
Hockenheim
1 h
Preining jokes about why he let team-mate Feller through
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