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Translation of an interview with Mario Haberfeld

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F3000: Haberfeld says that Barcelona is better placed circuit Third in the championship, the Brazilian Mario Haberfeld if it showed to optimist when arriving Barcelona, where it will be disputed, in next Saturday, the third stage of Formula 3,000 the International. After participating of a briefing it has tested in Valence in the monday, to only verify the functioning of its Lola B2/50, Mario if it directed immediately for the capital of Catalonia, its preferred city enters all that the F-3.000 visits to each year. More the one than of the city, Haberfeld likes it very circuit, where already it lived opposing situations. It was there that, in year 2,000, it suffered the worse accident from its career; but also it was there that it conquered resulted its of 2.001 better, the room place in grid and the final result. It was the only race of the year where the pilot of São Paulo did not face problems in the Super car of the New, surpassing the Australian Mark Webber, who ran for the same team. Barcelona is a circuit that demands much concentration because the curves are chained. When if erra one, commits the two or three that they come to follow, analyze Haberfeld. O rightness is difficult. As the straight line is long, but it has all type of curves, she is necessary to choose between using airfoiler and to be a little slower in the straight lines or to use minor and to sacrifice a little the tack in the curves. Testesd that we made here in February can help a little, but not very because at that time he was very cold, about 10 degrees and the forecast for the treinos and the race is of 17. Asphalt is abrasive and the consuming of the tires is great, who will have a rightness that it saves the tires goes to be faster of the half of the race for the front, informs Haberfeld. The race of Barcelona will have 32 returns and goes to be transmitted to the living creature for the SporTV from the 10 hours of this Saturday. In the passed year, pole position, made for the Justin English Wilson, was 1m33s931, but the winner was its friend of team Takes Enge, of the Republic Checks, also favourite in this year. The leader of the championship is the paranaense Rodrigo Sperafico, with 16 pontois. To follow they come the Frenchman Sébastien Bourdais, with 10, and Haberfeld, with six. The amazonense Antonio Pizzonia has number of points the same, but it is the placed room because the sattle of matter criterion is of better rank of the year, what Haberfeld favors, second in Interlagos. Already the best one resulted of Pizzonia was the room place, position that occupied in such a way in Brazil how much in It immolates.

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