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Oh dear...
By Karl King May 10 2008
Dead last. Without Super Aguri to save Force from embarrassment in Turkey this weekend, the official team press release cited the drivers as qualifying in '19th and 20th positions respectively' - that is an outright lockout of the final row of the grid. Fisi qualified over five tenths faster than Sutil but the Italian will have the indignity of starting last due to his three place grid penalty.

The field was, the team press release was keen to point out, covered by under two seconds so the team were satisfied with thier relative performance.

Adrian explained the difference between his and Fisi's time, "On the last set of tyres I couldn't improve my time and didn't get the grip I expected and locked up into turn 12, but it was not so bad overall."

ITV commentator suggested that Bridgestone would've brought softer tyres with them had they known it was to be so cool in Turkey. Fisi alluded to this lack of grip, "The balance is not bad, but we just need more grip and more downforce to move forward with the grid position."

Encouragingly, Mike Gascoyne pointed out that "We've shown that our race pace can be more competitive than the one lap pace, so we can certainly look to race the cars in front of us tomorrow."

Directly ahead of Force will be Nelson Piquet and Sebastien Vettel who set identical lap times. Hopefully we can look forward to some good racing from our boys.

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10 May, 2008 16:42 Report
Alianora La Canta (IP Logged)
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Re: Oh dear...
Well that was pretty frustrating, but then Force India have had bad qualifying sessions before and recovered from them. Turkey is also notorious for startline accidents, so if Fisi and Sutil can avoid them, then suddenly they've got a chance of getting decent finishing spots. Still, with a lack of grip on the cars, I can see it being a long race...

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10 May, 2008 21:38 Report
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it looks pretty bad.. but u never know, maybe being last and keeping away from accidents may be the only way to move these cars forward.

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