ISTANBUL: Both the Force India cars will start at the last rows of the grid at Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix with Adrian Sutil starting at 19th followed by team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella.
Fisichella finished 19th at the qualifying session after clocking his fastest lap with a timing of 1:27.807 but will have to start from the end because of three grid place penalty handed to him on Friday.
Sutil got the 20th position at qualifying after registering his fastest lap with a timing of 1:28.325 but will start ahead of Fisichella. The Indian team oozed confidence of doing well despite the low qualifying slots.
"Actually, I had quite a good qualifying and we made a big improvement from practice. My car in the free practice had a few problems with the balance so we did a few changes between the sessions and it was better for the afternoon," Sutil said.
"On the last set of tyres I couldn't improve my time and didn't get the grip I expected and locked up into turn 12, but it was not so bad overall. From a performance perspective, to better to the practice pace and to get close to the rest of the field is positive," Sutil added.
Fisichella was also satisfied with the team' show. "I did a clean lap and the team did a good job with the car. The balance is not bad, but we just need more grip and more downforce to move forward with the grid position. I am looking forward to a better race tomorrow," he said.
Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer, praised Fisichella and said team will be competitive in the race.
"I think in Giancarlo's case he got the most out of the car today considering his penalty. Adrian had a small lock up on his last run which cost him some time, but overall that is where the car is on this type of track. We've shown that our race pace can be more competitive than the one lap pace, so we can certainly look to race the cars in front of us tomorrow," he said.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Sutil and Fisichella to start from last rows at Turkish GP
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