Team-mate
Adrian Sutil was rather less fortunate in Australia and Malaysia, twice being forced into an early bath after hydraulic woes intervened less than ten laps in both times. The young German is hoping it will prove to be third time lucky in the Sakhir desert.
“In Bahrain you need to be quite quick in a straight line,” the 25-year-old
F1 sophomore explained. “The teams will be quite close together, but I think with the new upgrades we have we will be much closer than ever to the other teams. It's mainly a hairpin circuit, [with] a few quick chicanes but mainly second gear corners, so it should suit us a bit better.
“I think we will be close to reaching second qualifying again. We saw in both Melbourne and Malaysia that Giancarlo was close, and it will be similar again I hope. I feel I've been unlucky in qualifying, and then of course in the race, but I am confident we won't have the same problem again.
“I just need to have the opportunity to finish to show what I can really do. We saw in Melbourne that my first lap was very good and that the car is more competitive than last year, for sure. I'm looking forward to racing again and getting my first finish of the year.”
