Ricardo Zonta 2004

Ricardo was driving the TF104/07 chassis for the US practices and in the first session he completed 25 laps to end the session in 5th place with a time of 1:12.366s. In the second session he completed 42 laps and was 9th with a time of 1:12.019s, Ricardo had these comments to make on the session : "Although I raced here back in 2000, the Speedway felt like a new track to me first thing this morning, so I spent the initial runs simply relearning the circuit. We made some good progress to improve the balance of the car for the second session when we completed our tyre programme and long runs. I had quite a bit of traffic on my final set of new tyres, so I backed off during the out lap to create enough distance. By doing this, the brakes were not at their optimum temperature, which resulted in me locking the wheels and losing a couple of tenths. Nevertheless, I am happy and I think we have done a good job."