Tiago arrives at the historic Monza circuit, near Milan, to contest the 2006
Italian Grand Prix, round 15 of the Formula One World Championship. The
Italian Grand Prix has been on the calendar year since the start of the Formula
One World Championship in 1950.
Tiago goes to the Italian GP straight from a three-day test at the Autodromo
Nazionale di Monza after the Turkey Grand Prix contributing to the preparation
program of the Grand Prix.
The fact that we have all been driving here a week before the race means during
the weekend we can concentrate on fine-tuning the car rather than spending time
on acclimatizing to the high speed track. With the team Midland, we carried out
almost 1400km of mileage with the M 16-01 equipped with a Toyota RVX-06 G085
engine and I am the driver who drove the most completing 100 laps and 577
kilometers on the track. I recorded the fastest lap time of 1:23.85 for our
team. Monteiro said.
Tiago Monteiro added: "The Monza test last week went very well, even better than
we expected. We spent three days testing the new car without any problems.
Toyota RVX-06 G085. It was very productive and to prepare the GP we went through
a lot of test items and the program included tires, aerodynamic components,
brakes and set-up testing. Our improvements can be translated directly into
improved lap times and I am confident that we will be continuing our trend of
increasing competitiveness at the race here next weekend.
I am looking forward to racing it at Monza although it is a very tricky and high
speed track but overtaking is possible. It will be very important to have a good
car balance in the braking zones because of the low downforces which require
different techniques, set-ups and aero package exclusively for this race. The
track is fast and demanding on brakes with high kerbs and you must be very
focused on your race. My favorite turn is Ascari where you can be in fourth and
even fifth at the exit of the turn.
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