Norbert Michelisz, 1st: “The focus for me was to have a good start and stay in front, because if you are ahead, it’s a bit easier to manage things. Comte was faster than me and was putting a lot of pressure; he was close to overtaking me twice, but after he got a puncture, I realised there was a gap to Mikel (Azcona). Then when I didn’t see Mikel anymore, I asked the team to inform me about the gap behind. Yann (Ehrlacher) was 2-3 seconds behind, which gave me the possibility to take care of the tyres. My car since this morning has been perfect, I felt in control, and it was a wonderful day for me.”
Yann Ehrlacher, 2nd: “Congratulations to Norbi and Thed, especially to Thed, as we worked as a team. We worked in safe mode to make sure we secured points for Cyan Racing. He had good pace in qualifying and the race, so he deserved as much as me the opportunity to score points. I’m also happy to see Norbi back to where he belongs. We came here with 40kg of ballast and not expecting much, so to imagine we could be P2 would have been unrealistic. Right now, it’s cool to be P1 in the championship, but it’s a long season, we’ve only done seven races out of 20.”
Thed Björk, 3rd: “I like Italy, and I like the heat - it’s warm in the car, but I had a really good race. I started seventh and we’ve taken good points. I was hoping for more in qualifying as I don’t have any weight, but Norbi completely destroyed us, so I’m very happy to be on the podium after starting seventh.”
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