“Maybe there was something strange happening with the wind on the track, but that’s the same for everyone. We’re in a very tight group of teams, so we will have to push hard for a result in the race.”
Nick Heidfeld:
“Of course I’m not happy with P9, but I can also see something positive in today’s qualifying – it went much better than practice did. The sun came out and this helped me to heat up the tyres. My very last lap was actually really good until the final sector when I made a mistake which cost me about three tenths of a second. I think I can move up the field in the race.”
David Coulthard:
“I’m happy to be through to the top ten after problems at the last two grands prix. We used all our option tyres to get there, though – two sets in Q1 and two sets in Q2 – as I didn’t want to take any risks. As a result, we only had primes left at the end. We only did one run in Q3 as we wanted to save fuel, so the car was very heavy.”
Nico Rosberg:
“It didn’t go the way we expected it to today. I thought we could get into the top ten, but it wasn’t possible as there were a couple of things on the car I was not completely happy with. However, eleventh is a good starting position and we are normally good off the line, which gives me confidence going into the first corner. On top of that, I can now choose what strategy I want to run, which gives us the opportunity to pull it back in the race and do well.”
Rubens Barrichello:
“It was a good effort from everyone today, however unfortunately we are not as fast as we thought we might be here in Turkey. It is a balance problem, rather than the tyres or grip levels, and I believe we achieved the best that we could today.
“I couldn’t get the car to perform well over the whole lap. The first and second sectors were good, but the third sector wasn’t working for us. Realistically this is where the car is at the moment. We need another step to make us a regular qualifier into Q3.”
Jenson Button:
“I have to be reasonably pleased with 13th, as we were struggling to get the tyres working in qualifying today. Q1 was not too bad and we completed both runs on the prime tyre.
