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Team Talk - Thursday in Monaco

Catch up with what all the teams had to say following Thursday practice for the sixth race of the season - the Monaco Grand Prix.

Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel
“It was not a "clean" day in the office today. Our session was a bit scrappy: I touched the wall, damaged the rear wing, but luckily we were able to fix it and carry on. I just didn't get everything out of the car, couldn't find the rhythm and didn't do good laps on the ultrasoft tyres. If you look at the standings, we don't belong where we scored today. But overall the car is good and has the pace. So I am not worried for Saturday. Today our focus was not towards ranking high up, we tried a couple of things and it is fair to say that some of them didn't work. Being the first practice day, it is also difficult to see what other people did.”

Kimi Raikkonen
“It was not an ideal day, but it is still the first day of practice. In the morning I was not very happy with the car but in the afternoon we were able to improve the behaviour. There's a lot of work to do but of course this is not the easiest place when things are not running exactly as you want. It's the first time we use the ultrasoft compound in the race weekend, the feeling is that it's the best fitting tyre of all of those we have here, but we still need to find a way to make them work slightly better.”

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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