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Tough qualifying for Karthikeyan
Posted: Sunday June 26th 2011, 10:30 GMT
It wasn't an easy qualifying for Narain Karthikeyan. The Indian driver finished yesterday as 24th but his teammate was almost a second faster than him. "It was a difficult session," says Karthikeyan. "I just didn’t catch up the time lost on the track yesterday with the gearbox issue. Braking stability on our car wasn’t the best so I’m a little bit concerned about that but, apart from that, there aren’t any major issues."
"The track is tricky and penalizes you a lot if you make a small mistake because all the corners lead into long straights so if you don’t stop the car enough or if you lose the apex by a few inches, you get penalized all the way down the straight. There isn’t much grip offline so you have to be pretty precise."
Karthikeyan hopes to improve but doesn't expect miracles: "I would have liked a few more laps perhaps but the important thing is that we’ve qualified and now have to take on the race. It’s my first time here so this is all experience I’m gaining and we should take it all as a positive. Now we need to try and improve the car and improve myself and see how we do."
Last year HRT finished 18th and 20th.
