Ricardo Zonta 2004

The weather was very changable at the french practice sessions and saw Ricardo in the kitty litter at one point! but in the first session driving the TF104/07 he completed 18 laps to finish 13th with a time of 129.085s and in the second session Ricardo completed 15 laps with a time of 1:17.735s to finish in 15th place, Ricardo said: We didn't obtain any meaningful results from either of today's practice sessions because the weather conditions were so changeable. My last time of running at Magny-Cours was back in 2000, so I took a few laps in the first session to learn the modifications to the final sector, which are new to me. In the second session, I made a mistake on a dry tyre run. I was carrying too much speed into the third corner and I drove through a large patch of standing water, which appeared to be dry as I was approaching it. This sent me into the gravel trap, but it was easy to get back on track and fortunately we did not lose too much time. Like everyone, the inconsistent track conditions affected our programme a lot today."