Everybody is playing very fair. There's differences now between the cars. We have 'push to pass', which is a help. We have option tyres versus standard tyres. So it mixes a lot of things up and creates a lot of variables.
Q:
Did you leave anything on the track yesterday during qualifying?
SB:
No. What you can leave on the track is a hole in the fence or something like that if you try any harder than that [
laughter]. No, personally, as I said, maybe I just tried a bit too hard. Maybe that's the reason why I didn't.
BJ:
To be honest, the difference between Tracy and me in second, and Sebastien, is pretty small. When you go to the race, if your car has a little bit better balance than the other one, the guy that was in fourth can have the fastest car and the guy that was in first could be the slowest. The fine-tune is very delicate when you're talking about one or two tenths of a second a lap. And, I think Sebastien's race, and I guess myself as well, we're good drivers, if you have a good car, you're going to go fast.
Some days, Tracy's car works better, some days my car works better, like it was Friday. Today, Sebastien's car work better. Each day, one of the drivers took the edge. I mean, between all of us, it's been very, very small difference. It's just a matter of maybe a little small shock adjustment can make the car be good or be bad - not bad, but not that good. The difference are really small.
SB:
I think that's how competitive the series is right now. You have a lot of people ready and able to win the race. It just takes a small adjustment and fine detail.
PT
The difference, one tenth, is like blinking your eye. That sometimes separates the top three guys. I mean, you try so hard just to find one tenth. You're pushing yourself to the limit, pushing the car to the limit. Just trying to find a tenth is so difficult sometimes.
Q:
Paul, back to the tyres... When you were on reds, Sebastien was on blacks, were you surprised that you couldn’t gain more time on him?
PT:
I was surprised. I thought that we could challenge. At that point, I thought, okay, in the middle of the stint, when Sebastien got by, I was on the black tyres, he was on the red. He got by me. We knew that the [red] tyres were faster. For some reason, my car just didn't want to react today. My first stint, I was running 70.1, 70.0, the end 69.9. The second stint, same pace on the blacks. But my car never really got steadily better as the track rubbered. I seemed to be just stuck at the same pace.
