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Good friday for Lotus
Posted: Friday June 10th 2011, 23:01 GMT
Lotus is happy with its first day in Montreal. The team finished the day as 16th and 17th. Jarno Trulli, who failed to finish the race on the Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve 8 times, said afterwards that he is satisfied with his day: "That was a good Friday for us. We ran well all day with no problems, got through the tyre evaluation programme and put good mileage on both the compounds." The Italian says that the grip wasn't great and he doesn't expect it will get any better if it's going to rain in the next days. "The grip level this morning was as dusty as we expected it to be and then it improved throughout the day, but with wet weather coming I think it will be harder work for everyone over the rest of the weekend."
His teammate Heikki Kovalainen was also happy with the result: "Overall I'm pretty satisified but it was a bit of a strange day. In the early runs this morning it felt like one of the hardest Fridays I've had this year in terms of the balance and overall performance of the car, but as we kept putting more laps in we made some good improvements with the brakes and the setup and I think we pretty much got what we wanted out of it by the end of P2."
