Germany was my first weekend with Arden, and we went to Hockenheim to learn a little bit about each other. For me, the feeling I have is pretty good with the team and I feel pretty confident, I like all the guys and I like the way they work. I really like the engineers and the mentality they have: I can see that they have a lot of motivation, and also with the feedback me and Buemi were always asking the same thing and going in the same directions. This was a really good motivation for the next race, because we are trying to improve the car in exactly the same way, which is good.
Maybe the results didn't come out so well over the weekend, but honestly we expected this: a race weekend is quite fast and not the best place to learn, so it was always going to be quite hard. But I am glad I made the move: I don't want say anything about my former team because I don't think it is right, but for me the feeling is much better with Arden.
Free practice conditions were difficult because I made a mistake and spun off at the start of the session when the track was drying: the car was fine, I was at the exit of turn one so it was close to the pit exit, and the car wasn't damaged at all, I had it in recovery but the marshals didn't want to push me to restart the engine, which was safe to be honest, so they pushed me into the paddock instead.
I just went on the radio and said to the guys come and see if there is anything we can do, and asked if they could restart the engine for me because it was really close, only 100 metres or so from the pit entrance. So they came and we pulled the car back to the pitlane and restarted the engine from there: of course we asked if it was allowed, and it was possible. We were then able to do some laps, and the tyres had a flat spot but still I was able to get a feeling for the car.
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