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There’s
always lots of wind at Silverstone and it often rains, even in the
summer. The track conditions are changing extremely quickly so
that it’s difficult to find the right set up for the car.
Usually,
when you’re leading in the Championship, you hope for stable
weather conditions, but this year it’s different and we try to
consider this variable part of the fun of racing in England. For
the first time we’re racing at Silverstone without any prior
test sessions. The Team prepared some new solutions, which we will
test on Friday morning: as never before this year it’s
fundamental to exploit the three free practice sessions as much as
possible. At Silverstone the performance in the fast corners is
very important, where you need a high aero downforce. We hope that
the new solutions will help us to improve in an area, which
brought us into difficulties in Turkey. As I’ve said several
times before we need to be patient: we’re improving thanks to
the hard development work, but we’re still not able to fight for
a win against the Brawns. I’m extremely confident and I’m
convinced that after another couple of races we’ll have closed
the gap between the leaders and us. I know that this is what our
fans want from us and we’re giving it our all to succeed.
It
will be a difficult British GP: a place on the podium would be a
great result. Form me this is really significant track. This
was almost the starting point of my international career in the
minor Formula series and I always loved to race here. That’s why
it’s a bit sad that this should be the last edition of the race,
but I have to admit that I also really like Donington: I’ve won
there too already….
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