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After promising runs in the first part of qualifying as well as early in the second part of the session, in the end neither of the Sauber Motorsport team’s drivers made it into the top ten qualifying here at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany this afternoon.
Kamui Kobayashi qualified 12th for tomorrow’s German Grand Prix and the Japanese racer was far from happy with the end result.
“I am not happy because I should have gone through into Q3. The car was good and the performance in qualifying confirmed this,” he said. “But on my second run in Q2 I had traffic and needed to slow down a bit. Obviously this wasn’t good for the tyre temperatures and I had a lack of grip afterwards. However, from 12th on the grid I should still be able to score points tomorrow.“
Meanwhile, teammate Pedro de la Rosa had an even tougher time and will start tomorrow from a lot lower on the grid than he expected in fifteenth place overall.
“I was certainly hoping to make it into Q3. Overall I think we have been closer to the top ten than expected. The car was good and it will be the same in the race tomorrow. On my second run in Q2 I pushed too hard and had a couple of big moments,” he said. “This way I obviously couldn’t improve my lap time.“ |
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