“We are up against very strong opposition, which is no surprise to us. Of course, there’s a question mark over fuel loads, and we won’t get an answer to that until the first pit-stops tomorrow afternoon.
“I am a bit disappointed, but I made mistakes on my second lap in Q3 and I have to accept that. I didn’t go into the final corner before the pit straight quite right and lost a lot of speed. We can count on a car that is good over a distance, though, and we will try and make the most of it, trying to get as many points as possible. Winning is never easy, but I’ll give it a go!”
Robert Kubica:
“I am quite happy with my qualifying result and hope for a good race. We were expecting a little bit more after finishing P2 in the second qualifying session, but after re-fuelling the balance of the car was not good in a few corners and it became difficult to drive. With the high fuel load we picked up a lot of understeer. We shall now analyse the data and try to understand why.”
Mark Webber:
“It’s good to get P6 today, after letting the team down yesterday with a bit of a shunt. The only downside of today’s result is that we’re on the left-hand side of the grid, but apart from that it went very well.
“We’re in reasonable shape to get some good points tomorrow – we’ll just have to keep our nose clean and have good, clean pit-stops. It’s going to be an interesting race [and] the team has done a great job today – to get both cars into Q3 was a good effort.”
Fernando Alonso:
“We made it easily into Q3 and seventh place is more-or-less where we expected to be, although I think we could have done a little better. For tomorrow, the start of the race will be vital, but I think we should be able to fight for some points. It’s important not to forget where we were just two races ago. We are moving forward – that is for certain.”
Jarno Trulli:
“It was good to make it into the top ten again, and to be on the fourth row is better than I expected, but I am not really satisfied. I just couldn’t get the set-up right so I had some trouble with understeer and oversteer. That meant the car was difficult to drive and I could not repeat the same lap times that I did at the beginning of the session.
