Mercedes happy with improved pace in Korea

Mercedes were pleased with their performance during the first two practice sessions at the Korean GP with the team looking much more competitive.

Ross Brawn, though, was not getting carried away insisting that whilst the single-lap pace was promising improvements must be made to the team's race pace. "We've had a very solid Friday working through our planned programme and were able to complete a lot of running," Brawn added. "The car seems reasonable on lower fuel levels, although there is still work to be done on high fuel. The grip evolves very rapidly here and I expect we will have a different track on Sunday to the one that we saw today, so we need to try and anticipate that. Overall it's been a pretty reasonable day." The day did finish on a sour note for Mercedes, however, with Schumacher handed a reprimand for impeding HRT drivers Pedro de la Rosa and Narian Karthikeyan.