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Boosted by Penalties in Canada

Sutil in qualifying
By Karl King June 8 2008
Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella will line up 16th and 17th respectively on the Canadian grid on Sunday, the German out-qualifying his more experienced team mate by less than six hundredths of a second. The team are lucky to have been boosted on the grid by the mishaps of rival teams otherwise it is likely they would have been further back.

Firstly, after an accident on Saturday morning, Vettel was unable to take part in qualifying and will line up last. It'll be an all-STR back row as although Bourdais qualified ahead of Sutil, he's received a five place gearbox penalty and will line up 19th. Jenson Button had also had a gearbox problem in the session and could not record a fast time - although the pace he has shown over the weekend cast doubts amongst some over whether he'd actually make it past Q1 anyway.

Fisichella commented, "The grip this afternoon was definitely worse than the morning. It wasn't too bad in practice and we found a good set up and compromise with the aero and we were quite competitive.

"This afternoon I just lost a lot of grip and didn't have confidence in the circuit. It was practically undriveable and really disappointing that we could not have finished higher up.

"We will see what happens tomorrow, particularly if it rains."

Adrian added, "I actually had a worse feeling with the car and the tyres here than in the morning. The grip level was very, very low compared to that session and I think everyone struggled to find something.

"I think the lap time was alright compared to the others, just sadly not enough to get us into Q2 this time."

Mike Gascoyne concluded, "Ultimately a very disappointing and confusing qualifying session.

"This morning the car was well balanced although the grip level was still low, but this afternoon both cars had practically no grip. Given these sort of track conditions and the changeable weather it will be a very difficult race for anyone to finish tomorrow however I'm sure with our better race pace we can look to have a strong performance.

"Anything can happen here too, with safety cars and so on, so we now have to put today behind us and hope for a better result tomorrow."

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