Monaco Thursday quotes: Sauber

Kamui Kobayashi - 17th: It is really difficult to drive here and I had a few moments. I think we had a reasonable set-up from the beginning, but still it was difficult to find grip in the slow corners, which is our main problem. We will work and try to improve the set-up.

James Key, Technical Director: Like any first day at Monaco, the track was obviously slippery at the beginning and tricky, so we just allowed the drivers to do their laps and get a feel for the car and the tyres. We did some set-up work in the morning and suffered a little bit from the grip level, but everyone had the same problem in that respect. In the afternoon we consolidated on what we found in the morning. We went through another programme on the prime tyres and then tried the option tyres, which worked pretty well by the time we ran them, because the track was in better condition. We then went on to some race simulation work. The race pace looked quite reasonable, however, there is work to do on our qualifying pace. That's what we will look at in detail for Saturday.