“We still have the race tomorrow, and you never know what can happen. We will see what we can do with our strategy, and I will just try my hardest to get the most out of it.”
Jenson Button:
“Qualifying was just so close today, and it was a tough session for us. A lot of our work this weekend has been trying to understand the aero on the car, as I missed out on testing last week. On my last run, I took some front wing off as the rear end was twitchy and I had too much understeer. That was really useful as we found it made the rear end more stable and didn’t give me any more understeer, so it’s a question of trying to understand the car and catching up on the time that I missed last week.
“In the circumstances, I’m pleased with our position today. I felt a lot more comfortable with the balance of the car on my final run, and we are certainly making progress. I need a bit more time with the car to understand the new aero properly and find out how to get the most out of it, but I’m happy with our position going into the race and we’ll see what happens and what we can take advantage of.”
Timo Glock:
“Clearly our goal was to be in the top ten, but it didn’t work out. Q1 wasn’t too bad, but Q2 didn’t go according to plan. On the second run we didn’t make any mistakes, but for some reason I couldn’t improve my time – and it looked like the same thing happened to Jarno on that lap.
“I have no explanation because the feeling was good on the out-lap, but when I came through turns one, two and three I felt the car sliding more and the time didn’t come. From 14th it is difficult, but in Bahrain I came from 13th to ninth so it is possible to move up.”
Nico Rosberg:
“It wasn’t a good day for us today. I’ve struggled with the balance of my car since we arrived. The only things that we could adjust to try and improve it during qualifying were the front wing and the tyre pressures, but that wasn’t enough so I wasn’t able to do better this afternoon.
