ANTHONY DAVIDSON Car 23 (SA07-03)
FP3 Position 10 Fastest Lap Time 1:20.915
QUALIFYING Grid Position 19 Lap Time 1:21.448
T-Car SA07-02
Weather Warm with a clear sky (39.6%-64.4% humidity)
Air Temperature 19.1°C minimum, 23.6°C maximum
Track Temperature 28.8°C minimum, 47.0°C maximum
Rosberg has a shocking qualifying performance in 17th but has a misfire problem. Button will start 18th after having yet another call to the weighbridge hampering his runs. Davidson didn’t help him either in 19th after spinning out which means both Aguris didn’t make it into the second knockout session. Sutil starts 20th and Takuma Sato runs to 21st place being outpaced by one of the Spyker cars. Albers rounds up the top 22 in 22nd.
Comments from Super Aguri F1"We need to find out what was wrong with the car. It was not performing well and I never got comfortable grip or stability. It is disappointing as yesterday we made some progress and this morning we tried to improve the performance again for Qualifying, but the speed was not there. On my final lap I was trapped by the Yellow Flag, so I could not improve on my lap time, so I am disappointed."
"It was obviously a disappointing Qualifying session. It was always going to be tough trying to get into Q2 today. The car again did not quite have the speed like we saw in Magny-Cours, but I was confident that I could have pulled something out of the bag, until the last run, when I came out in a sea of traffic ahead of me on the opening of my lap as they came out of the pits, so I decided to abort the lap. I tried to find a good space and get a bit more heat into the rear tyres, but basically I overcooked it coming out of Brooklands, trying to get as much force into the tyres as possible and the car snapped on me. I still believe that we have a better race car than Qualifying and you never know, the British weather can be unpredictable, so I am looking forward to my first British Grand Prix tomorrow."
"Poor. It's been getting tighter and tighter all year. This is one of the bigger circuits, so you'd think that there would be a bit more latitude, but there wasn't. Our cars did not have the performance today and again our Qualifying session was not error free."
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