Not for the first time this season, in fact it has happened all too often, Williams joined joined Lotus, Virgin and HRT at the back of the pack...
Williams:
Pastor Maldonado: "This track is good fun! We had no problems today and worked our way through the scheduled test programme, which included a lot of long runs on various tyre compounds, which is positive. That has given us some good information which we will use to make our preparations for the race."
Rubens Barrichello: "The car felt better this morning than it did this afternoon so we will have some work to do in practice tomorrow to make sure that we are in the best possible shape for qualifying. Apart from that, it was a normal day with everything going according to plan."
Team Lotus:
Jarno Trulli: "I'm pretty pleased with my run this afternoon. We need to do a bit of work on fine tuning the balance, and I think there's more to come from the new rear wing, but the update is working and hopefully we can show in qualifying the sort of pace we've had recently in the races - that's the aim for tomorrow, and then to carry that over to Sunday."
Heikki Kovalainen: "I had a good day today. The new rear wing is another step forward and it's encouraging to see that sort of update coming right at the end of the season. I got through a very good number of laps today and every change we made helped us find a bit more time on both tyre compounds, so with a bit more hard work tonight I think tomorrow and Sunday could be pretty good for us."
Virgin:
Jerome D'Ambrosio: "It was a pretty good Friday. We went through the programme and we did everything we had to do, so that's good. In terms of performance the car isn't too bad, but I'm not happy yet with the balance, so we've got a bit of work to do tonight. I think the track is difficult for car balance and it looks like everybody is struggling with oversteer. So it's not easy, but I think we can work on that for tomorrow, although we have to bear in mind that the weather might not be as good tomorrow."
Timo Glock: "I had quite a normal FP1 and FP2 today. I struggled a bit with the tyres; their behaviour was a bit difficult and in terms of managing them right for a qualifying lap it is not easy. But in general today was okay, we were able to work through our programme. Now we have to keep an eye on the weather and decide what direction we want to take."
HRT:
Daniel Ricciardo: "It was another typical Friday without too much special to report on. We made a bit of progress in the second free practice from the morning but I definitely feel we are still a bit off our true potential. Now we've got the night ahead of us to make any change we want and hopefully be better for tomorrow. It's going to be close again with the Virgins but we need a little bit more to give them a good fight. It's a bit bumpy with not much room for error and quite an old school track which is nice to drive."
Tonio Liuzzi: "We tried to recover the fact that we didn't drive in the morning so, at the end of the day, it was a good afternoon. We did two runs with hard compounds to get back into the rhythm and into the balance of the car. We had a bit of an issue at the beginning so we had to tune the set-up of the car because there was some understeer in the slow sections and oversteer in quick ones. There car was better after these adjustments but we're still a little bit off from where we would like to be. Then we encountered some traffic on the soft tyre runs but, overall, the long run was quite competitive so we can be reasonably happy. It's not going to be an easy last Grand Prix but, apparently, the weather may change and anything can happen".
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