It was a disappointing day in China for the WilliamsF1 team today when both drivers failed to make it through the second fifteen minute session. Given that they performed well in the dry sessions on the Shanghai circuit today’s wet session was not what they had hoped for. Nico Rosberg, the quicker of the two racers, will start from fifteenth and is hoping for dryer conditions here tomorrow.

“It was quite difficult out there in qualifying today. Our competitors’ tyres today were quicker in wet conditions,” he said. “Where there was relatively less water on the racing line everything felt pretty good and I enjoyed myself, just like this morning when the track was dryer, but with the amount of rain we saw this afternoon, were not quick enough to make it into Q3. I hope tomorrow will be dry and we will perform better.”

Meanwhile, teammate Mark Webber will start from 16^th and he is expecting a tough race here tomorrow afternoon…

“Qualifying was no real surprise in today’s conditions,” he said. “As we saw in Budapest it is not easy when the track is wet. It makes it tough for tomorrow, even if it is a dry race as there won’t be so much rubber on the circuit as we would have liked. Anyway, that’s how it is, so we will just have to give our best tomorrow.”

“We managed to get through to Q2 and ran closer to Ferrari on the same tyres than we have for some while, but we will start tomorrow 14th and 15th and will have to see what we can do with strategy,” added Sam Michael.