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Ralf feels the wind up him

Ralf Schumacher may have set an encouraging pace on the first day of testing at Paul Richard on Tuesday, but the Toyota driver was more interested in talking about the strong gusts of wind that kept plaguing his day.

"The main focus of my test is to concentrate on detail work for Monte Carlo," Ralf explained. "The car was quite oversteery early in the day and that wasn't helped by the strong gusting winds that, at one point, were moving me over a couple of metres on the main straight. You sometimes get that on a motorway overtaking a lorry on a windy day but it's not a nice feeling at 200mph!"

"People talk about the strong Mistral wind in this part of the world and I certainly experienced it today," he added. "Sometimes the wind was so strong that you barely got top gear on the straight but when conditions were calmer we had a productive day, trying a number of set-ups as well as evaluating the super soft and soft tyres for Monaco."

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