“Coming into this weekend we knew that we had closed the gap, that we were going to be competitive and possibly be able to win the race,” he affirmed. “They [Ferrari] still have a strong car but so do we, as you can see.
“It appears to be a lot harder for me or in our car to do a solid lap [in qualifying]. It looks a lot easier for them, so that's something we need to keep pushing. Perhaps we've sacrificed a bit of qualifying pace for race pace; perhaps we need to work on bringing them both up.
“The first two sectors [in Istanbul] were very strong. In Barcelona, in the last sector which was all the tight corners, they were a little bit quicker than us. It was the same here with the last three corners on the straight where they seemed to take quite a lot out of us. We are going to go back and try to understand why and figure out exactly how we can improve our last sectors, because that's where we are losing.
“If we didn't have the problem in the last sector then we would be winning, so that's something we need to fix. [We need to] keep pushing to improve, and I have no doubts that we can do that.”
