Written by:
SPEED Staff
SPEEDtv.com
05/22/2009
Monte-Carlo (MC)
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Q: GP2 Series: Romain, the only question I have is what just happened?
Romain Grosjean: [laughs] I know! It was a very good session, the first set of tyres I had a good gap in front so I could push hard for some laps, and then when I saw 19 [seconds] on the dash board I thought 'well that doesn't work anymore.' [laughs] And then saw on the board 19.8, and I thought 'oh, it does work!' [laughs] Then I saw 19.5 and the car was just very, very good, and we had a good baseline and it seems we can adapt it quite easily from Barcelona to Monaco, which is a good point, and the other good point is that the team is still working very hard: when you win the first race then we could say 'we are ahead, let's stay with what we have', but it is important to just keep working. There are ten meetings in this championship.
Q: GP2 Series: Sessions in Monaco are supposed to be difficult, but you made it look easy today: what made the most difference for you here?
Romain: I think it was not easy inside the car! [laughs] You need get a good, clear lap, which is difficult, and hopefully the qualifying was a bit better than the free practice, because the free practice was just 15 minutes where I couldn't do anything, so I just went to the pits to wait. Here we had a chance to get a good gap, and it's not easy because Monaco is a difficult race track, but I was very confident with the car, we changed some things at the rear for qualifying and it worked very well, so I'm very happy. Starting on pole in
