Indian GP: Lotus Friday quotes

Romain Grosjean - FP1: 15th/9th: "It's been very hard to set-up the car as the track has been evolving a lot through the day ; from zero grip in the morning to much better in the afternoon. However, we've made good progress today and we're working on improving further overnight. There are a few blind corners, and some quick places where you don't want to make mistakes either. Hopefully we find the car we want for qualifying and get what we want tomorrow."

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "Both drivers got up to speed pretty quickly on a new track once more. We spent the morning session evaluating the new front wing and some new rear diffuser parts ; we need to investigate further the diffuser parts but the new front wing looks good so we'll run it with both cars for the remainder of the weekend. We were able to conduct an uninterrupted FP2 programme, running both tyres reasonably early on, followed by a long run on the soft compound. We're missing a little pace on the hard tyre so we're investigating our tyre temperatures and pressures, however on the softer tyre our car looks very competitive on both low and high fuel loads. It would be nice to squeeze another two or three tenths out of the car in qualifying, but nevertheless we confident of the potential for a good show tomorrow."