Bojan Vrbnjak
Mick Schumacher was in extremely good spirits after yesterday’s qualifiers. After a great performance in the fight for the starting places, he literally glowed. With his malnourished race car Haas he managed to jump in Q2 (for the second time after Le Castellet, where he could not compete due to an accident) and will start today's race as 14.
The whole Q1 it looked good, but in the end he needed it final attempt to be ranked among the top 15. "I knew I had this opportunity. The lap hadn’t been bad before, but I knew I could drive even faster.”And in the last attempt, he managed to make progress. Nevertheless, after the qualifiers slightly angrybecause the last attempt in Q2 he had to interrupt as he was Lance stroll along the trail and a yellow flag followed. “I had another two to three tenths of a second in reserve as the track improved. I don't know if that would be enough to advance in Q3, but Yuki succeeded and in Q1 he wasn't far away from me," so Mick.
In the team Haas but you are that speed that he showed Schumacher, they can't explain. “I don't know, it's hard to answer,He replied confusedly Schumacher. "Maybe the reason is that the track is very new to all the teams. Maybe it led to the teams being more together and that the racer can do more in these conditions. They were all very close to losing the car. And that’s exactly what gave us the chance to get to Q2. Some racers were caught, we stayed on the track. It was still quite wet in the fourth turn. I enjoy it when it comes to dancing with a race car." Gunther Steiner he also shrugged and searched for the right answer. “We weren’t as good at training on Friday as we are today, but closer to the rest. I also don't know where our competitiveness from here in Turkey comes from. I have no idea."
Pri Nikiti Mazepin but it all went wrong. After many spins and trips off the track, he finally landed on last place. In Q1 he was fat three seconds slower than a teammate Schumacher. "These were simply chaotic qualifications. Tire temperatures played a big role, with 70 percent of the track dry and 30 percent wet. And here, every step in the tires is important. My first fast lap was still good, in the second I lost the car and then it was just chaotic with cold tires in the second attempt."
Can I Schumacher from the 14th starting point dreams of his own first point in Formula 1? “If it stays dry, the chances are not good. We need some help, resignations and a little rain, the best changing conditions. If the classic race is in the dry, then it will be difficult, because resignations are very rare today,” he says Steiner.
