We need an agressive approach - Fisico

Giancarlo Fisichella, the Italian driver of the Renault F1 Team, is determined to have a mistake-free weekend in Indy to further extend Renault's lead over Ferrari. For Fisichella the race at Indianapolis is one of the big races of year in F1. Here follows the interview with the Roman.

"It’s fantastic. There is so much history at the Speedway, and you can feel it every time you go there. This is one of the big races of the year for Formula 1, and the circuit has some unique characteristics like the banking, which is very high speed and different to anything else we encounter all year. The fans bring a special atmosphere to the circuit as well, and I think we can have a great weekend in Indy."

"It’s not easy to get the right balance! You have the high speed section where you want low drag to be competitive on the straight and then the infield where, in a perfect world, you would have maximum downforce to be quick. So the important thing is to find a good compromise between the two, which we do by running quite low levels of downforce, and using soft mechanical settings on the car to get the grip at low speed."

"Canada showed us that we have a very competitive package at these low downforce circuits. We had both cars on the front row in qualifying, and we were able to race at the front on Sunday. I didn’t get the result that I wanted after making a mistake at the start of the race, but I am very confident that our car will be able to run at the front again this weekend in Indy. We need to wait and see how the tyre performance compares before we can predict any results. But we know that an aggressive approach is needed to carry on beating Ferrari – and that is what we will have."