HRT, de la Rosa: “Reduced the disadvantage from the pole man”

The ranking of these qualifications closes Chinese GP the two pilots HRT, Peter of the Rose e Narain karthikeyan. More than four seconds separate them from the pole man Nico Rosberg, but the Spanish team declares itself satisfied with the test.

“I think it was, by far, our best qualifying session to date – declared de la Rosa -. I have already said many times that we have room for improvement, but what matters is that we have reduced the distance to those in command and this is a positive factor for us. We have taken a step forward, but we don't want to stop here. I am satisfied".

“In this qualifying session we made several changes to the set-up and the car responded well – he continued -. Even though we weren't able to get the car running well this morning, in the afternoon I realized that the car was better. Tomorrow we hope to fight, like we did in Malaysia, and if we are able to get better results, that would be great.".

“In the morning we had some problems with the suspension, but we solved them in time for qualifying – echoed Karthikeyan -. The first two laps were problematic, but we are comfortably in the 107% and this is important. We will have to try to do our best tomorrow, the aim, once again, is to achieve good mileage and I am confident that the car is capable of doing that.".

Lorenza Teti