Team Principal Raimondo Amadio: “We had to work hard on the car during all our first day in Le Mans. We deeply changed the setup of our Dallara searching for more downforce after understeering issues in the first free practice. Despite some electical issues, then we made a step forward in qualifying, but there is still a lot to test. It was a very demanding Wednesday, definitively, but we knew it, otherwise it would not have been the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We are about to start a very important Thurday now, ready to go!”.
Sporting Director Christian Pescatori: “it is very hot, not a so usual thing here. Track changed a lot compared to when we tested here two weeks ago and some solutions did not seem to work anymore. We are going to try some other settings because, probably, track will be changing again. There will be more rubber on it for sure. So, let’s see, we can exclude anything a priori”.
Roberto Lacorte: “As a rookie here, I am happy to have run the five mandatory laps during the night session. It was a very though day for us but now I am looking forward to test the new adjustements we tried in qualyfying 1, I am sure we are going to improve more”.
Andrea Belicchi: “We still have to find a better global balance on our prototype. After the pace shown in the first qualyfying session we can work on it because we had some good grip at last and the car was more easy to drive. The limit is at least some tenths of a second under our time in the official test [3’32”5]”.
Q2 and Q3 are on Thursday, June 15 from 19:00hrs to 21:00hrs and from 22:00hrs to midnight respectively. No further sessions will be held on track on Friday. Saturday, June 17 the 85th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, third round of the 2017 World Endurance Championship: at 9:00hrs 45 minutes of warm up session, start of the race at 15:00hrs.
Photo by Paola Depalmas
