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Bridgestone happy with tyre's qualifying form

Bridgestone was happy witht the performance of its tyres in the first qualifying session of the new season in which it is once again the sole tyre supplier in F1. Kimi Raikkonen took pole position ahead of Alonso and Nick Heidfeld 

"It pleases me that seven different teams are in the top ten confirming that we have provided all of the teams with similar information," said Bridgestones track chief Kees van de Grint. "Judging by the lap times shown in Qualifying 2 we could be in for an exciting race. It was good to see that our predictions with the different compounds proved correct. The medium tyre did everything we expected, providing reasonable grip with good consistency."

"The soft tyre was definitely quicker by a margin, as was shown by everyone in the top ten using it," he added. "How to use the two different specifications in the race will certainly keep the teams' strategists very busy. As is normal with a softer tyre the degradation is higher, although the amount of graining we have seen with the track today was less than yesterday, as the track has improved."

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