When asked how he thought things were going, Johnny Mowlem replied:

"It's what they call character building I think at the moment, in the sense that the team is excellent. I'm really impressed with the HVM Status team, they can put a package together for Imola, they did one race there, and they've come straight to the biggest sportscar race in the world, and they are coping with it brilliantly.

I don't think it is any huge secret that this is a difficult race to come to, even if you have got everything sorted and you've been doing lots and lots of testing, and all the rest of it, so when you come and you haven't, we're really behind everyone else in LM P2 and it is probably the most competitive LM P2 class in the history of any race I would say. If we had dry running, and even track-time without all the red flags, we probably would have been allright, but if you add it all up, I have litterally only done about 5-6 dry laps, - the engineers are pulling their hair out because they haven't got the laps they need to understand fuelnmileage and all therest of it, so ... this red flag (the last one in the session) just sums it all up, we've tried to go for a 10 lap run, to see if we can go for 11 laps in the race, - I think we tried it 5 or 6 times between the Test Day and here, and every time it has either rained, or we've had a red flag. BUT, this is Le Mans, it's all about keeping going, keeping a positive attitude, and anything can happen. This team is capable of keeing the car going for 24 hours.

The first session for me was just crazy, I drove only on wets, and in the second session and the night pratice, I got my night practice laps in, Tony Burgess too, unfortunately couldn't because of the red flag, but these were dry laps, and hopefully tomorrow there might actually be some dry laps in daylight, where I can begin to understand the car, and work on getting the car sorted.

We haven't done any qualification yet, we're 10 seconds off the pace, - and even at Le Mans with such a long track, 10 seconds is a lot - but we've never run anything but full tank, so we haven't really gone for a time.

Unfortunately we still need to find out about the exact fuel mileage, and many laps we can run on atank, - and until we have discovered that, we can't run low fuel config.

I suspect that certainly in tomorrow's first qualify session we won't be running with low fuel - maybe at the very end. We have to keep up with the race program, and qualifying really goes out of the window, and we start where we start. The time I set is already comfortably ahead of the GT cars, so we will see how it all pans out."

Interview by Lennart Sorth / ACO