British Grand Prix
Saturday 15 July 1995

Mika Salo 4th quickest in wet second qualifying session

Rain throughout the final qualifying session for Sunday's British Grand Prix 
ruined Mika Salo's hopes of improving his grid position after being 
disqualified from the first (dry) qualifying session on Friday.
Mika set the fourth quickest time (1 min 48.639 sec) in second qualifying 
but will have to start the race from the 23rd position on the grid. In the 
rain, Ukyo set the 14th time (1 min 52.054 sec) but was using and old set of 
wet tyres from the morning's practice session just to assess conditions.
Mika Salo: "Luck was not with me today. Without the rain I would have 
improved my time a lot, even if I didn't have one! I am sure in the dry I 
would have been lapping in the low 31 seconds, qualifying around the 11th 
place. It's a long race and I hope it rains tomorrow, because - despite the 
spray - it will make my job easier to overtake. If it's dry, it will be 
harder."

Ukyo Katayama: "We improved the set-up of the cars today, even if we had 
difficult conditions with the weather. In the second qualifying I used and 
old set of wet tyres but they suffered with some vibrations."

Harvey Postlethwaite, Managing Director - Engineering: "It's a shame that 
Mika did not have a chance to run in the dry. He went out straight away to 
insure he recorded a time and got into the race. They were actually very 
difficult conditions, half of the track being dry - half wet, and the wet 
tyres quickly got very worn. We ran both cars at the end of the session to 
check the balance."

Mr Kimura - Yamaha F1 Project Leader: "Today's result was all dependent on 
the weather for us and that did not go our way. The main thing was that we 
have had no problems with the engines over the last two days and we are 
confident that this will be the case tomorrow."