Pierre Kaffer (Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx / Audi R8 #8)
“We’re on the front row so to be first or second for such a long race does
not really matter. I had set the fastest time in the morning qualifying
session. I started on wets and then changed to intermediates and at the
end it was quite dry. I’m happy.”
Allan McNish (Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx / Audi R8 #8)
“I had another crack to improve my time after the second red flag but was
inadvertently held up. It would have been nice to be on pole but in reality
we have a very good car for the race. Everything has gone well for us so far
but it only counts in the race.”
Jamie Davies (Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx / Audi R8 #88)
“On my first flying lap in the afternoon session I spun under braking for the
‘bus-stop’ and on my ultimate fastest lap, just before the second red flag
interruption, I was held up badly and lost time. But we should be in good
shape for the race which is what matters.”
Johnny Herbert (Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx / Audi R8 #88)
“When I took over from Jamie with 30 minutes to run, we made the
decision to concentrate on our race set-up rather than get involved in a
fight for pole. I’m still not totally happy – we have too much understeer –
but we’ll dial that out in the warm-up.”
Seiji Ara (Audi Sport Japan Team Goh / Audi R8 #5)
“Being fourth on the grid is not so bad, but to be honest: pole position was
my aim. We didn’t manage to do so today, so we go for victory tomorrow.
We want to win!”
Rinaldo Capello (Audi Sport Japan Team Goh / Audi R8 #5)
“The result is quite good. It’s a shame that each of my really fast attempts
were hindered by slower cars. We have to work on the set up for the race -
I was fighting with heavy oversteer.“
Sam Li (Team Director Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx)
“We completed the programme for both cars we’d set out to achieve
allowing for changing weather. A six hour race around Spa will be tough.
We have now started all of our six races from the front row - 4 LMES races,
Sebring 12 Hours and Le Mans 24 Hours.”
Kazumichi Goh (Team Director Audi Sport Japan Team Goh)
“I am satisfied with the result, because all three Audi are on the front two
rows so we reached our goal. The car is in good shape. We had some
bad luck with other cars, but I am optimistic for the race.“
Dr Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi Motorsport)
“All three Audi are on the first two rows – that’s what we set out to achieve
and we have managed it. It was an exciting qualifying, but we just missed
pole position. This apart, our hopes for a good race are still very much
alive.“
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