Senna : It didn’t go quite to plan

Bruno, P15 wasn’t what you wanted from qualifying today?

It’s been a bit of a tough weekend so far and today didn’t go quite to plan. It’s my first below par qualifying performance of the year and I hope it’s the last! These things happen – sometimes you just don’t get everything you need out of the car at the vital time. Vitaly did a great job so we’ve seen that the car is consistent and has great potential for the race.

So what went wrong?

The car was fine, I probably didn’t have sufficient mileage to have the confidence to push fully when it mattered on my qualifying run. I’m just off Vitaly’s time in a few corners and that’s all it takes to make the difference between Q2 and Q3. Tomorrow should be a better day.

How does it feel to miss out on a top ten position?

It’s a bit frustrating not to get into the top ten, but as I said that’s my first bad qualifying result of the year so I just have to look to the race tomorrow and try to do the best job I possible.

What do you think is possible from the race tomorrow?

I believe we have a good race car; my high fuel run earlier today was not bad. It could be an interesting race for us, especially with the tyre degradation so I hope that we make good strategy calls with the tyres.

There has been a lot of talk about tyre degradation – what could happen in the race?

There’s big circuit evolution so we’ll have to see how the track changes tomorrow but I think that the front tyres in particular are suffering and there has also been blistering on the rears so it will be interesting to see who manages this the best.

Source LRGP