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Monday, July 4, 2011

Kamui Kobayashi is confident Sauber can achieve a good result at the British Grand Prix.

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Kobayashi: Sauber driver is a big Silverstone fan

Kobayashi has bagged points in six of this year's eight races, only failing to score in Australia, where Sauber were disqualified, and last time out in Valencia where he finished a disappointing 16th.Kamui Kobayashi is confident Sauber can achieve a good result at the British Grand Prix.

However, the Japanese driver is adamant he can get back into the points at Silverstone as the Northamptonshire track's characteristics should suit his Sauber C30.
"Silverstone is a high speed track, so I expect us to be good at the British Grand Prix and in a position to fight for points," Kobayashi said.
"For me personally Silverstone is my favourite circuit of all, because I really love such high speed corners and also the crowd is very enthusiastic there.
"Last year it was there where I achieved my best result of the season when I finished sixth in the race.
"The weather is always difficult to predict, but it doesn't worry me after we proved in Canada we can adapt to any track conditions."

Tyres

The team's technical director James Key admits next weekend's grand prix could be decided by the tyres with Pirelli making their he hard and soft compounds available to the teams.
"We expect that the tyres will be key again this weekend," said Key. "We have the soft and the hard tyre compound. We have to be careful with the hard tyre, because it does require a lot of warm up, although Silverstone should be as a circuit better depending on ambient conditions.
"With the soft tyre we are happy, it should be right as an option tyre for this circuit. Silverstone is typically quite heavy on tyres with the amount of loadings they get, and the surface of the track is quite rough and abrasive.
"For the car we've looked a lot in detail at where we seemed to suffer some performance issues particularly during the last two events in qualifying. We have some new directions to take in Silverstone although the track is very different from the last two we've been to.
"We'll be working closely on the tyres and on the set up of the car in order to extract its full potential on a single qualifying lap. We will have some developments around the diffuser and a new rear wing to test."

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