Top-ten qualifying for both Sahara Force India drivers at Sakhir
7th fastest time for Di Resta and next for Sutil, but they afore expected to start from fifth and sixth places following penalties for Hamilton and Webber
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Sahara Force India carried its strong form into today’s qualifying session for the Bahrain Grand Prix with Paul Di Resta setting the seventh fastest time ahead of teammate Adrian Sutil in eighth. They are expected to start fifth and sixth following grid penalties for Hamilton and Webber.
P7 Paul Di Resta VJM06-04
Q1: 1:33.762
Q2: 1:33.335
Q3: 1:33.235
P8 Adrian Sutil VJM06-03
Q1: 1:34.048
Q2: 1:33.378
Q3: 1:33.246
Adrian: “The car was quite tricky to drive today and the grip level of the track made it difficult to complete the perfect lap. My final lap in Q3 could have been better, but I’m pretty happy with the outcome, especially if I move up to sixth. The track suits us, we like the warm weather and things look promising for tomorrow. It’s a good starting position to have both cars on the third row and we will be looking to move forward in the race.”
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal
“An excellent team effort today brings us our best qualifying performance of the year. We knew we had the pace to get both cars into Q3 and in the end there was very little to choose between Paul and Adrian with just a hundredth of a second separating them. We expect to move up a couple of positions with both cars when the grid penalties are handed out, which puts us in a very strong position for the race. We have no concern with the tyres so the key tomorrow is to hold track position and find some clean air with the strategy so that we can make the most of our strong race pace.”
- Starting position to be confirmed.
Sahara Force India Formula One Team
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