McLaren in Good Shape, Says Coulthard

McLaren driver David Coulthard believes his team are in a good position to score their third consecutive victory of the season at Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix.

"We all have to wait and see tomorrow what the strategy means," said the Scot. "As far as I know, I think we are in good shape. I wasn't comfortable with the balance of the car during the 15-minute warm-up, so we changed it back to how we ran it during this morning's practice and everything felt fine.

"Now we will see what happens tomorrow. The new rules make it difficult to know the competitiveness of the other teams."

Coulthard, winner of the first race in Australia this season and at Interlagos in 2001, secured his first front row start of the season by posting the second quickest time of the session, only behind local hero and Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello.

Malaysian Grand Prix winner Kimi Raikkonen finished in fourth place after making a small error on his flying lap. The Finn, like Coulthard, was still confident for the race.

"My qualifying lap was not perfect but fourth place is acceptable taking into account how close the competition is," he said. "I got the car a little bit sideways at Turn Nine, which lost me a small amount of time, but I think we are looking reasonably strong for the race. "