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Giancarlo Fisichella
Giancarlo Fisichella
Jordan drivers comment on Australian GP

DHL Jordan Honda drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Takuma Sato gave their thoughts on today's action packed Australian Grand Prix.  Fisichella was particularly unhappy about the first lap accident and the decision not to restart the race.

"I am really very angry about what happened today," said Giancarlo," as I believe the car was good enough for us to win some points. It has felt good all weekend – even better than I had expected – and I was looking forward to a good race. When I saw Ralf (Schumacher) go flying through the air, I slowed down to avoid the collision, but was hit by Heidfield who hadn’t slowed down and had gone off into the gravel and lost control of his car. It isn’t in the first corner that you win the race, so I am not too happy with what he did! To be fair to him he came up to talk to me after the race and explained that he just lost control of the car when he saw Ralf go off. I also think it is ridiculous that the race wasn’t stopped as most of the drivers were left to watch the race on TV!"

Team mate Takuma Sato commented: "I was able to avoid the incident at the start – I just saw Ralf’s car in the air and then lots of smoke everywhere, but managed to steer clear of things as I was far enough behind. After the restart I enjoyed a good battle with Pedro (De La Rosa), and then overtook him when the safety car came in. But then I had an electronics problem which meant I couldn’t select all the gears. The team called me in to the pits to try to fix the problem but, although I went out again, ultimately I had to retire. I seem to have gone through quite a lot this weekend, except a proper qualifying (!), so it has been a very exciting and interesting experience which I hope will set me up well for a better weekend in Malaysia."


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