Bruno Senna pulled out all the stops in front of his home crowd in qualifying, making it all the way through to Q3 to line up 9th on the grid for tomorrows race.
The Brazilians performance was made all the more impressive as he’d suffered from technical worries in practice which limited his track time in the morning.
LRGP – Brazilian GP – Practice 3 – Lotus Renault GP Report
Bruno Senna, R31-05
P17, 1:14.551, 15 laps
Vitaly Petrov, R31-06
P11, 1:13.838, 20 laps
LRGP – Brazilian GP – Qualifying – Lotus Renault GP Report
Vitaly Petrov, R31-06
Q1: P8, 1.13.859, 10 laps
Q2: P15, 1.14.053, 6 laps
Bruno Senna, R31-05
Q1: P15, 1.14.453, 12 laps
Q2: P9, 1.13.300, 5 laps
Q3: P9, 1:13.761, 3 laps
LRGP – Bruno Senna – “I’m very happy with that”
It was an ideal qualifying for you…
BS: Yes, it pretty much was. In qualifying 2, the team put a good car together and we did a great job. It’s a shame we had used tyres going into Q3 because we could have had an even better result.
Discussion: SELOC Chat – F1 – Brazilian Grand Prix – WE schedule