Bojan Vrbnjak
Sebastian Vettel is heading to today 's race with 12th starting place. Is this a bad or good starting point now? That team racer Aston Martin he could not make an accurate estimate yesterday, but added that Q3 was possible.
"It looked better, we had the speed to qualify for Q3, but it was tight. There was not much missing," so Hag, who missed the third part of the qualifications by one and a half tenths of a second. And where did he lose that time? The German attributes the blame to the balance of the car AMR21. "In the second attempt in Q2, I suddenly had a lot of understeer.“In general Aston Martin he didn’t feel well with the medium mix yesterday Pirelli tires. "We noticed this on Friday,He added Hag, which adds in terms of qualifications: "I need to see if maybe I did something wrong with heating the tires. I have no idea. The car was better with a soft mixture and we still have to find out the reason for that. ”
However, the question arises as to why then Hag for his experiments in Q2 did not take soft mixtures? "The question is easy to answer. I believe we prefer to start the race from 11th or 12th place rather than a soft mix. This racing weekend is going to be tough enough to cover the intended distance with the tires anyway. The soft blend is not popular here, at least I believe so. We were pretty strong on the middle mix as we almost made it. I had the impression that I was able to improve. And there was the possibility of advancing with the middle mix, but we failed. With a soft mix we would definitely, but then we would be in eighth or ninth place and that wouldn’t be ideal for Sunday. We now have a free choice of tire compound. ”
Za Vettel yesterday’s result, twelfth place in qualifying, is not surprising. “We have a bit harder work here, which is what we expected.And what is possible achieve in the race? "It's hard to say, but we set the car more in the direction of Sunday's race in the qualifiers. So I hope this can help us.”According to four-time world champion however, it will be most important tire management. "And then, I believe, we could move forward a bit and finish the race among the points winners."
