Sunday
Jean Alesi:
"What can I say ? It's been a very disappointing season for me. I think the transmission failed, but we need to look as the car closely to be sure."

Pedro Diniz:
"After his accident, which was no fault of his own, Pedro was examined in the medical centre. Apart from bruising to a shoulder and knee je had no visible injuries, but was flown to hospital for further precautionary examination."

Peter Sauber:
"From our point of view our race finished at 3.15. Pedro was blameless and I am very happy that he escaped his accident with remarkably light injuries. We wish him a speedy recovery"

Saturday

Jean Alesi:
"I don't like the figures I saw from the wet set-up of the rear wing I was going to use at the end, but rather than alter them it was quicker to use another wing with dry settings in the limited time available. The track was quite consistent in the final stages, but because of the wing situation I lacked downforce so the car was not at its optimum"

Pedro Diniz:
"My last lap was easily good enough for a place in the top ten, until Irvine went off the road and came straight back on in front of me without looking. I'm really disappointed he did that, because the car felt so good. Nevertheless I still think I'm well placed to score points tomorrow."

Peter Sauber:
"This was a qualifying session that read like a thriller, with tension right up until the last second. In retrospect I think we should have waited a bit longer and divided our last eight-lap runs into two stints. But it's always easy to be clever in"

Friday

Jean Alesi:
"The balance of my car was fine today, no problems there. There was no massive wheelspin, no oversteer nor understeer. It felt good, but I reached its limit in the condition that we ran it today."

Pedro Diniz:
"It was a bit of struggle today to get the car balanced, especially on new tyres. I lost a lot of time just trying a number of changes to the set-up. Then the front wing became detached while I was passing the pits. That was a big moment! I wasn't aware of hitting anything beforehand, so I'm not sure what happened, but it was a job to keep control of the car. Fortunately I had time to get it slowed down before the first corner."

Peter Sauber:
"Jean had a fairly typical Friday practice, which gave us the data to improve tomorrow. Pedro's progress was interrupted, when he lost his front wing in a spectacular manner on the start/finish straight, after it was damaged by contact with a rubber course marker in one of the chicanes."