Caterham: Van der Garde, “Being last is a disappointment”

Bad Saturday for the Caterhams dealing with difficulties with both drivers who will complete the starting line-up for the Chinese GP.

“We've had more than a few problems in recent days and this has influenced qualifying, making it difficult to get the most out of the car, especially the tires,” he said. Charles Pic, 21st – In the morning we tried different set-ups and the balance seemed to have improved compared to Friday, but then we weren't able to make the most of the tyres. In the two runs I did I used the soft tyres, but initially I encountered some traffic which prevented me from doing a clean lap, then I noticed some oversteer when exiting corners, so I wasn't able to express myself as I wanted. days like today are frustrating, so we have to work hard and try to put in a good performance in the race."

“After some profitable free practice, today I just wasn't able to get the right felling with the CT03 – he commented Giedo Van der Garde, 22nd – Like my partner, I had some small problems in each of the sessions and this compromised the performance. Understanding the behavior of the tires is really complex given that as soon as the temperature of the track rises there are large variations. Obviously being last is disappointing, plus in my second run I made a mistake at turn 2 and thus lost at least four tenths. I probably could have finished further ahead, but now the focus is on the race in an attempt to repeat what we did in Malaysia."

Chiara Rainis