Adrian Sutil had encouraging runs in the second Force India VJM01 chassis, setting the 17th fastest time in both sessions.
The Force India duo concentrated on longer runs and fine-tuning the race set-up, and completed 101 laps in total with the only mechanical problem a minor hydraulic leak for Sutil in the first session.
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"The track was slippery at the beginning, so it was difficult to find a good balance to start with, but after the first run I was happy and then we didn't change so much over the sessions-- really just fine-tuned everything," said Sutil.
"We had a small hydraulic problem before lunch but it was soon solved and we could do several longer runs in the second free practice with some quite good lap times. At the end it was a little bit unlucky I had some traffic on my fastest lap so I couldn't do a good time with the new tyres, but tomorrow is another day and I think we should be much better than last year."
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