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Solid start for Spyker

The Etihad Aldar Spyker Formula One Team has completed a productive first day of the US Grand Prix, with no major mechanical problems in either free practice session. With the field very closely matched, Christijan Albers and Adrian Sutil finished just two seconds off the fastest time of the day.

Adrian Sutil commented on today's work: "It was an OK day. In the morning session we tried to set up all the electronic systems and I was very happy with the set-up of the car. This afternoon we found we could not get an improvement from an old set of tyres to a new set and I did my fastest lap on the harder tyre option, so the goal for now is to understand how to get the most out of the tyres with the set-up we have."

Christijan Albers said: "Today was a solid day trying out different set-ups and tyre options available this weekend. Everybody is really close, but we still have a small gap to make up to the other guys, so we need a push to get closer for tomorrow. As it stands, today was a good day, but it will be even better if we can get closer tomorrow."

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