“It's not going to be an easy race tomorrow, but I will give my maximum to try and recover. I will work hard with my engineers this evening so that we can try and improve for tomorrow and for the races to come. After that it will be down to me to do what I can on the track during the race.”
Sébastien Bourdais:
“Bad traffic – basically the
Force India guys – ruined my afternoon. On my first run I was held up by Sutil as early as turn three, and on the second I came up behind Fisichella in turn eight. That meant we weren't too sure about the handling of the car, and I asked for an adjustment to be made for the last run which turned out to be not the right thing to do.
“It's annoying because I came within two tenths of Q2. Everyone seems to behave quite well in qualifying, but I don't know what those guys were doing on their ‘out' laps. It was a bit surprising. Starting 18th, our expectations are limited, but I will give it my best shot as usual and try and make the most of any unusual circumstances that might occur.”
Adrian Sutil:
“Actually I had quite a good qualifying, and we made a big improvement from practice. My car in free practice had a few problems with the balance, so we did a few changes between the sessions and it was better for the afternoon.
“On the last set of tyres I couldn't improve my time and didn't get the grip I expected and locked up into turn twelve, but it was not so bad overall. From a performance perspective, to better the practice pace and get close to the rest of the field is positive.”
Giancarlo Fisichella:
“I did a clean lap and the team did a good job with the car. The balance is not bad, but we just need more grip and more downforce to move forward with the grid position. I am looking forward to a better race tomorrow.”
Stefano Domenicali [Ferrari – team principal]:
“A very nice pole from Felipe, and a shame for Kimi, who could have been a bit further up the grid tomorrow.
“In general terms we can be happy with the overall result, even if this is only the smallest step on the road to the targets we set ourselves for this weekend. Of course the biggest one is the race which we can tackle fully confident of our potential, while being aware of the great strengths of our rivals, who will make our life difficult.”
Luca Baldisserri [Ferrari – technical director]:
“As expected, this was a very close qualifying. Felipe did a nice lap to take pole, while it was a shame that Kimi missed out on a better position by a whisker.
