Team Comments:
Thomas Couyotopoulo, Sporting Director of Racing Engineering: “A hard working day for the whole team. Free practice was busy trying different settings on both cars and with track condition a little bit tricky as some areas were slightly wet following the diesel issue during the F1 FP1. Free practice classification was not too good for us but a lot of information had been gathered so in this sense it was positive to be able to fine-tune the choices for the rest of the weekend. The qualifying session started on a fully wet track and after the first stint, both of our drivers were in the Top 5, showing a strong pace every lap. The circuit then gradually started to dry up, but only in some areas so it made it difficult for everybody. Alex has done a good job, finishing in P3 but we were in good shape for the pole position in the last lap, until Alex found a slow Visoiu in sector 2, which hampered his time. Jordan unfortunately suffered from a vibration on the front end of his car, limiting him during his second stint which sees him finishing in a disappointing P14. We are looking into this issue tonight to solve it and looking forward to the Feature Race tomorrow.”
Jordan King: “It started off well today, the speed of the car was good and we were third on the first set of tyres, but then we started to have a brake problem towards the end of the first run, so by the second run it just got worse and worse so I couldn’t improve as the track was getting grippier. This is a bit annoying as I think we should have been near to starting towards the front so it will make for an interesting race tomorrow. AS for the circuit I am quite happy as I think we can overtake some people, so we will see how it goes.”
Alexander Rossi:: “Qualifying was obviously a bit different to practice, it was very wet and it was strange as there was only wet in sector 3 in sector 1 and sector 2 it was pretty dry, so it was a bit of a strange session. Anyway, the car was good and we were fighting at the top from lap 1 on and I really thought we had the potential for pole. Unfortunately there was some traffic on my last push lap and it didn’t work out for us but we are at the front for tomorrow, which is the main goal. Stoffel is right next to us, so we have to find a way to improve on the dry set up as it will be dry tomorrow and so fight and go for the win.” |
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