Michael Schumacher, P1 - 1:18.805, 10th; P2 - 1:16.356, 7th
"Our gap to the front seems to be less here than in Barcelona. With my crash this morning, we had made a set-up change for the run and I locked up braking for turn one. After that, my decision to go down the escape road was too late, which is why I hit the barrier. The mechanics did a super job and the car this afternoon was just as quick as this morning. What Nico showed in terms of one-lap pace looks good, and our long runs were also quite reasonable.?
Ross Brawn, Mercedes GP team principal
"We had a productive day with lots of good work achieved. The team recovered extremely well from Michael's incident this morning, and gave him a good car for the afternoon session. We worked on high and low fuels levels with the two tyre compounds, and the tyres seemed to hold up reasonably well, probably better than we expected, which will be taken into account for Sunday's race. Overall, today was a good start to our Monaco weekend."
Norbert Haug, vice-president, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport
"We had a productive first day here in Monaco with Nico and Michael posting good lap times compared to our competitors. Certainly we have made a much better start to the weekend than one week ago in Barcelona. Michael had a little off in the first session and the team did a great job to repair the car by shortly after the start of the afternoon session, so that Michael was still able to complete 33 laps. Our plan is to make another step on Saturday and hopefully we can qualify both cars in a good position for the race on Sunday."
Bueno las declaraciones distan de ser pesimistas, espero que esten en lo cierto. Confirman sus buenas impresiones en tandas largas.
Respecto a Michael enteindo que no ha intentado hacer una vuelta rapida porque se refiere a la capacidad del coche a una vuelta comentando lo que ha hecho Nico, a ver si es verdad. No he entendido muy bien su explicación sobre el accidente que ha tenido, normalmente no tengo problemas con eso pero esta vez no me ha quedado muy claro...