Villeneuve replied: “Well if the other person is ahead of you in the championship or has been doing a better job and you are leaving
and the balance was decent as well; it didnt feel like we could squeeze much more out of that.
Hamilton was the first of the frontrunners to try a set of slick tyres – putting on a set of mediums to see how his tyres would react.
having firmly established himself as a hot property on the grid.