Williams: Bottas, “Today we got the maximum potential out of the car”

Valtteri Bottas qualified fourth and Felipe Massa eighth in the first night qualifying session in Bahrain. After Ricciardo's 10-place penalty, Valtteri will start third with Felipe seventh in tomorrow's race. Having done extensive testing here over the winter, Williams is confident that the pace of the cars competing will allow the drivers to challenge their rivals for some good points tomorrow.

Valtteri Bottas: It was a good qualifying session. I think we got the maximum potential out of the car today. After the Red Bull sanction we are third and after the last two races it is nice to see all the potential of the car in qualifying. We didn't do too many laps this weekend, so there are things we can still improve for the race, but if we have the right strategy and know how to seize the opportunities that may come our way, we should be able to bring home a good result .”

Felipe Massa: “It wasn't an easy qualification. I made a couple of mistakes on my lap in Q3 because I had a bit of oversteer, so I lost a bit of time. I'll start from P7 tomorrow, after Ricciardo's penalty and it will be a long race, so anything can happen. It's good to see our competitiveness, and we will fight tomorrow.”