• QUOTES

Alain Menu (Pole): “The team has been working very hard for almost three years now to get where we are today. Today’s qualifying result is the just reward for all the hard work everybody at Chevrolet and RML has been doing all that time, especially throughout these last months. More specifically I think that some of my advantage this weekend came from the fact that I had earlier experience here at Zandvoort from my DTM days. This is a track which you don’t learn in just three laps, so the others didn’t have it quite as easy as they used to. I may have topped three out the four sessions, but you could also see that the others closed in by the last session.”

Nicola Larini (2^nd): “It is obvious that this track suits our car really well. I had a bad day yesterday, more than a second off the pace of Alain, but today I improved my form step by step. Tomorrow will be an interesting day. Being on the first row means we obviously have a realistic chance at going for the win, but this track is particularly hard on tyres, especially for front-wheel-drive cars. So we will change the set-up for the race quite drastically from today’s qualifying spec in order to be as easy on the front tyres as possible.”

Rob Huff (9^th): “I had a good lap on my last run, but it felt quicker than it really was. Compared to Alain and Nic my car understeered a bit, and I have of course 15 kilos of success ballast from Brazil to carry around, but the engineers and I will have good look at the data tonight and see what we might have to change for tomorrow. Mind you, if one of the others wins and I can finish in eighth in the first race I’ll still be very happy.”

Ray Mallock: “Needless to say I’m very happy that the team’s hard work has come to fruition. This weekend we were absolutely on the pace, to the point of setting it. I’m very, very pleased with our first pole position and front row lock-out.”

Eric Nève: “From yesterday’s and this morning’s times we felt there was a pole position waiting for us. My biggest worry before this weekend was to see whether the theoretical advantage we had developed over winter could be translated into reality on the track, and obviously it has!”