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Strong day for Spyker

The Spyker MF1 team had a strong Friday practice at Shanghai. Monteiro finished the day ninth fastest while third driver Alex Premat was fifteenthn and Christijan Albers was 28th.

"It was a weird day because of the weather conditions that haven't really allowed us to be sure of what we've got," said Montieor. "I think we did a pretty decent job in the end but we need to keep our feet on the ground as the weather was strange and we basically only did ten real laps. We have some data to work with and starting the day with a top ten is good all the same. "

Albers commented, "We had quite a tough day and we stayed on one set of tyres for both sessions. We need to do some fine-tuning for the race set-up but I think we are going in the right direction. Tomorrow we will see what's going on; I think there is much more speed in the car as I had some traffic in the last couple of laps so couldn't do a quicker time. But hey it's only Friday!"

Team boss Colin Kolles added, "As people can imagine behind the scenes it has been a very busy weekend so far but to see our cars run on here for the first time in their new livery was a happy moment. I was very pleased to see Alexandre Premat having a successful day in the third car. Strange weather is always welcome and I hope that changing conditions can give us a better chance in the race."

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