WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Mika Hakkinen: Why did the chicken cross the road? (pause) that's tough question (pause) maybe (pause) maybe it's a question you have to ask the chicken.
David Coulthard: I was really surprised when the chicken swerved right in front of me and crossed the road. I was expecting it to walk straight along the pavement, but it just cut right across in front of me. I think we'll need a ruling from the FIA if chickens are allowed to do this.
Michael Schumacher: The chicken is allowed to move over, that is clearly within the rules. The chicken can make one move to defend his line. But it can't zig-zag backwards and forwards across the road. What it did was quite fair and within the rules.
Luca di Montezemolo: The chicken knew that it couldn't get to the other side of the road first, it had to wait for the rooster and let it through.
Ron Dennis: The objective of the poultry individual in this situation is to work towards the goal of a road crossing. We're comfortable that that can be achieved using only bi-ped motional forces. We would refuse to compromise until a safe chicken arrival scenario had been achieved.
Alain Prost: For sure the chicken crossed the road. But for me it was not as interesting as chickens crossing the road ten years ago.
Rubens Barrichello: I'd like to dedicate the chicken crossing the road to my great friend Ayrton Senna
Max Mosley: We have to find ways of slowing chickens down and making them safer. For that reason the FIA are changing the rules so that chickens crossing roads will be equipped with special chicken bodywork and neck supports.
Jacques Villeneuve: So what the f*** if the chicken gets run over. The chicken wanted to cross the road.
James Allen: Hey guys, you're not going to believe this, but the chicken's on a different strategy to the bantams.
Murray and Martin
Murray: And as the lights go out, it's GO GO GO for the duck as it dives towards...
Martin: It's a chicken Murray.
Murray: Yes, yes, it's a chicken, charging into the lead. I think it's got this race sewn up.
Martin: The chicken's stopped, Murray.
Murray: DISASTER for the chicken! This will throw the whole badger crossing championship wide open!

Honda has found an oil systems issue, which requires a full investigation. The team plans to run again today, but "due to the difficult access location, it will take several hours to resolve".

It's not good news for McLaren-Honda to be sat in the garage chasing some kind of oil system problem. The engines coming to this test should all be test-bench run and where the engine connects up to the system of the car should be bulletproof. Using the excuse that this is testing and things will go wrong is rubbish because you only have eight days and you need to hit the ground running. Losing a big part of a day is time you will never recover, and by the time the McLaren runs again, most of its rivals will have built up a lot of mileage. We've seen a lot of finger problems for McLaren and Honda during the past few years, and maybe this is the same again. Not a good start to testing.