Britain Preview Quotes: Michelin

Pierre Dupasquier, motorsport director: "Silverstone promises to be an interesting weekend â€" not least because the long-range forecast suggests we will certainly need to put our wet-weather tyres to the test. I feel confident about our chances whatever the conditions. We have done plenty of development work with our dry-weather compounds at Silverstone and the results were most encouraging. Our tyres were certainly very effective in last year's corresponding race. Jarno Trulli led convincingly for Renault in the early stages, but a couple of Safety Car periods compromised his chances â€" and ours, as things turned out. This season, we will be out to make amends."

Pascal Vasselon, F1 programme manager: "Silverstone is one of the test venues we visit most frequently, so teams know it very well. We will be using tyres from the harder end of our range because they are more suited to the circuit's fast sweeps and high-speed directional changes. It is not often during the season that a harder tyre's handling properties outweigh the advantages of a softer compound's extra grip, but that is the case at Silverstone. The biggest unknown factor, as always, will be the different strategies adopted by teams during qualifying â€" and we bore that in mind when finalising our options. We will have three dry-weather tyres available and these were selected in the wake of recent tests both here and in Barcelona."