Turkish GP Force India Qualifying Report
Istanbul Park
2011 Turkish Grand Prix Qualifying and Final Free Practice Report - 7 May
It was another encouraging afternoon for Force India as Adrian and Paul qualified in P12 and P13 respectively for tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Park.
Adrian Sutil (car 14)
It was quite a straightforward session for me with no major issues. I think we used the tyres well, there were no problems with traffic and it was a great team effort. But we should remember that the races so far this year have shown that qualifying is not as important as it used to be and it's more important to have a good car for the race. I'm pretty happy with my set-up for tomorrow and feel more comfortable with the car than I did at the last race. In terms of the tyres, the hard seemed to perform very well yesterday, but the softs are looking good in the higher temperatures so it will be interesting to see how that develops in the race.
Paul Di Resta (car 15)
I think it was another great team performance today and we are roughly where we expected to be. There were no problems in Q1, and in Q2 I only did one run because we thought it would optimise our race strategy and save a set of tyres. I'm happy with my set-up for the race and I think we've sacrificed a bit more today to have a better car tomorrow. Hopefully that will put us in a reasonable position to fight the cars ahead of us and pick up some more points.
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal
We can expect more of what we saw in China with lots of action throughout the field
A pretty good day overall. Starting in P12 and P13 puts us in a great position to race strongly and hopefully challenge for more points. It was a shame that we just missed out on getting ahead of Barrichello, but ultimately Williams were just a little quicker today. For the race I think we can expect more of what we saw in China with lots of action throughout the field. It will be interesting to see how the tyres hold up, especially with the demands of turn eight, and we know there are some good overtaking opportunities in the lap which should make for some exciting racing.
Adrian Sutil (car 14, VJM04/04)
FP3: P13, 1:27.318 (19 laps)
Q1: P7, 1:27.397 (8 laps)
Q2: P12, 1:27.027 (6 laps)
Paul Di Resta (car 15, VJM04/02)
FP3: P16, 1:27.644 (18 laps)
Q1: P12, 1:27.652 (8 laps)
Q2: P13, 1:27.145 (3 laps)
Source: Force India
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