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Team Lotus' Tony Fernandes: 'Best qualifying in my career'
Posted: Saturday June 11th 2011, 19:15 GMT
Team Lotus qualified for tomorrow's race as 19th and 20th. Despite not making it into Q2 Tony Fernandes thinks this is the best qualifying result in the team's history. "I am very happy with today," said the Malaysian team principal and owner immediately after qualifying. "From my perspective that was the best qualifying of my short career in Formula 1 because we showed that we did not have to rely on other teams making mistakes or using different tyre strategies to finish the session with a very small gap to making it into Q2 on merit. That is a clear sign that the hard work being put in across the team is paying dividends as we are genuinely edging ever closer to the midfield."
A sentiment shared by Mike Gascoyne, the team's chief technology officer: "It was a good qualifying session for us and overall it has been a very solid weekend so far for the whole team. Both drivers drove well in qualifying - Jarno struggled a bit with the brakes and Heikki couldn't improve on his second set of tyres as he reported that they had lower grip levels than the first, but we finished the session with a small gap to the cars ahead and I think we will have a good race tomorrow."
Last year Heikki Kovalainen finished 16th. Jarno Trulli retired with brake problems.
