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McLaren make most of dry moments

McLaren Mercedes drivers Pedro de la Rosa and Kimi Raikkonen set the eighth and 10th fastest times respectively in today's second free practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix. Running in the afternoon was also limited with the track only improving enough to use dry tyres towards the end of the session.

"Due to the wet weather conditions we took the decision to conserve the engine and tyres, so we limited our running to only six laps at the end of the second practice session," said de la Rosa. "Despite this the team worked very efficiently to gain good tyre comparison data. We expect weather conditions to improve tomorrow."

Raikkonen commented, "A first practice day where nothing really happened due to the wet weather conditions. There was no use in doing anything other than some set-up and tyre evaluation work as the track conditions were not ideal for detailed results. Tomorrow's free practice will hopefully give us a better opportunity to prepare for qualifying and the race."

Team boss Ron Dennis added, "An uneventful practice session where we restricted our programme to a handful of laps in the second session when weather and track conditions improved."

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