Saturday: At Lotus, Räikkönen and Grosjean are rather disappointed
After an encouraging Free Practice 3, the Lotus drivers suffered from a lack of grip in the Lotus E20. Räikkönen is therefore disappointed to have to settle for seventh place on the grid, while Romain Grosjean, eliminated in Q2, takes comfort in knowing he will have plenty of new tires for the race.
Kimi Räikkönen – 5th and 7th:
« We modified the car after this morning’s session and we were quite confident approaching the qualifications. Unfortunately, we didn’t seem to have any grip this afternoon, so it was a bit more difficult than we thought. I’m rather disappointed to be starting from seventh place when we thought we had a much better car than that.
Romain Grosjean – 10th and 11th:
I expected better so I’m a bit disappointed, however, in terms of strategy, the eleventh place offers an advantage as you are the first to have the choice of tires for the start of the race and I have some sets of new tires in reserve for tomorrow.
I would have liked to be able to make it to Q3 and missing it by two tenths was frustrating. On my second timed lap, I was doing well, but for some reason, the car got away from me and I lost time. It was difficult to put everything together, but we seem strong enough to score points tomorrow.
