Friday: Räikkönen believes Lotus can aim for the Top 5 in qualifying
The Lotus drivers discovered the Yeongam track today, so they first had to learn this new playground. Räikkönen was also using Coanda exhausts for the first time. The Finn believes that the Top 5 is possible during qualifying.
Kimi Räikkönen – 11th and 10th:
« The track is good. It’s surprisingly bumpy in certain places, but it’s quite different from others. It’s difficult for me to talk about the new exhausts before sitting down with the engineers and examining the data. We will try to improve the car for tomorrow, because it wasn’t easy to have a good lap today. If we manage to get everything in place, we might be in the top 5 in qualifying. »
Romain Grosjean – 8th and 11th:
This has not been the easiest day. We still have a lot of work to do on the car to make the most of the tires. Tomorrow morning’s session will be important. The circuit is interesting, but it is not too hard to learn. The most difficult part is undoubtedly turns 11 and 12, which are not easy to get right. But in
Overall, it’s not too bad. I had plenty of time to learn the circuit and we gathered a lot of information. So I hope we can analyze all of this tonight and that our performance will have improved by the time of the qualifications.
[Lotus F1 Team Press Release]
