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"Operational issue" left Kvyat on used tyres in Q2
Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat was denied a crucial fresh-tyre run in the second segment of Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying by what he described as an “operational issue”.
Valentin Khorounzhiy Oleg Karpov
Edited: Mar 30, 2019, 9:32 PM
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The Russian scrapped his second run in Q2 after the out-lap and was resigned to 15th place on the grid.
His absence in the dying seconds of the segment allowed teammate Alexander Albon to leapfrog him in the timesheets, the Anglo-Thai rookie beating Kvyat in qualifying for the second grand prix weekend running.
“There was an operational issue,” Kvyat told media about his aborted second Q2 run, but the Russian refused to elaborate on what exactly had happened.
When pressed whether this meant a problem on his STR14, he said: “Obviously. Not with me.”
However, Kvyat's conversations with his Toro Rosso pitwall during Q2 have revealed the Russian's surprise at him running on used tyres on his final attempt.
Kvyat had done the conventional two runs to get out of Q1, and should've had another set of fresh softs available after his initial attempt in the second segment.
But as he ventured out of the pits, a quizzical Kvyat asked the team: “Why do I have used tyres?”
Race engineer Mattia Spini responded during Kvyat's out-lap, eventually calling him back into the pits and admitting to the Russian that there now wasn't enough time in the session to change rubber and return to the pits.
“What was that, guys?” Kvyat asked as he brought his car back in.
Teammate Albon's second run elevated the rookie to 12th, and he was just 0.042s away from making his maiden Q3 appearance.
“Not a bad qualifying session,” Albon summed up. “It felt a little bit like Melbourne - we were on the back foot in FP2 and FP3, just struggling with the track and it looked like everyone was sliding about a bit and myself included.
“There were definitely some things in FP3 that I wasn’t happy with and we tuned some of that out for quali - so on my first lap I already thought that it was a lot more forgiving and predictable, so that’s where the pace came from.
“In terms of qualifying, I’m happy with the performance and we should have been in Q3.
“I ran wide in that last corner, which didn’t lose me as much time as I thought but I think we were dealing with four hundredths to Kimi [Raikkonen in P10]. It’s a shame.”
More from Bahrain GP qualifying:
- Norris: Vettel "screwed over" Grosjean in penalty incident
- Steiner: Grosjean's penalty point "completely wrong"
- Gasly can't drive "unpredictable" Red Bull how he wants
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