Fisichella Stays Positive Ahead of Saturday Session

Brazilian Grand Prix winner Giancarlo Fisichella is confident ahead of tomorrow's decisive qualifying session for the San Marino Grand Prix despite finishing two seconds off the pace set by World Champion Michael Schumacher in today's session.

Italian Fisichella, who collected his Brazilian Grand Prix trophy only on Friday morning after the initial result was overturned in his favour last week, could only muster the 11th fastest time.

"Unfortunately I made a couple of mistakes in the last sector, otherwise I think I had the possibility to be 10th," said Fisichella. "The car is not too bad, we need to adjust the set-up bit and I'm confident for tomorrow."

Briton Ralph Firman finished down in 17th position more than 1.5 seconds behind Fisichella. The rookie blamed a mistake at the start of his flying lap for not doing better.

"It was going reasonably well but I made a mistake at the chicane, I just hit the kerb too hard and got the car a bit oversteery," said Firman. "I had a productive morning though and I'm looking forward to tomorrow, I think it's going to be a good weekend."