Singapore Friday quotes: Bridgestone

Hirohide Hamashima - Director of Bridgestone Motorsport Tyre Development: "The Marina Bay Street Circuit is certainly an interesting and challenging track for Bridgestone and all the competitors on our tyres. This evening the circuit started very dirty, as we would expect from a new facility, especially a street course.

"The grip level from the track improved rapidly through the first session, however, the fastest time seen today was some way off our predictions. Normally we would see an improvement in lap times in the second session and from the softer compound tyre but we did not see this today.

"This is perhaps because there is still not sufficient rubber laid down on the track and also due to team strategies in the session as they learnt this new track. The soft tyre worked well with conditions as they were today. We have a lot of data to analyse and tomorrow's running should give us a better idea of what to expect in Sunday's race."

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