Chinese GP 2006 - RACE

Sunday, 1 October 2006

Confucious He Say...




"…to race is glorious,



to finish ninth or below



is pointless" 



One  of  the  most  famous  people  in  ancient  China  was  a  wise  philosopher  named
Confucius: we have with us his descendant, Confusedus.


DAVID COULTHARD, (Finish Position 9th, Start Position: 12th)
That was a tough race. At the beginning, my intermediate tyres had quite a lot of graining and I was being
passed left, right and centre. I was also heavy on fuel. But as the track dried, the tyres wore down and it all
came good so I was very quick at that point. Unfortunately I later had an incident with Massa. Two or three
laps before, he'd come down the inside of my car, but I managed to avoid him. He tried the same again,
which resulted in us colliding. I'm disappointed as it damaged my car. I lost steering assistance in left hand
corners, so it was pulling to the left. I was able to still go quick, but had difficulty braking at the hairpin and
ran wide, which allowed Mark to pass. That was us out of the points."


ROBERT DOORNBOS, (Finish Position 12th, Start Position: 10th)
"That was pretty exciting for my first race with Red Bull, but I was hoping for a bit more having started tenth
on the grid. It was tight going into Turn one, I touched Kubica's car and lost time when I had to come in the
pits to change the front wing. But it was good fun after that. I passed eleven people on the track, which was
a good performance on used intermediates. We got the switch right changing to dry tyres, did the job and
finished the race. I'm looking forward to the next one."


CHRISTIAN HORNER, "In very difficult conditions, we got the strategy right for David today. He was on
the right tyres at the right time. He was very quick in the middle of the race on worn intermediates and we
changed to slicks at the right time to get him out ahead of Massa and Webber. Unfortunately, Massa had a
collision with David at the hairpin, which damaged his steering. As a result, David locked up a couple of
laps later and lost a place to Mark. Robert was the victim of a first lap incident and had to change his front
wing, but after that he drove very well. He was quick on worn intermediates, but lost some time, as did
others,  after  changing  to  new  intermediates  at  his  first  pit  stop.  Once  on  slicks,  he  set  some  very
competitive race laps and, apart from the first lap incident, it was a good job by him today."