Lotus Renault GP aren’t having the best weekend at the spectacular Singapore circuit, struggling with the high down-force configuration and bumps around the artificially lit street circuit.

Vitaly Petrov will line up in 17th place for Sundays race after being knocked out in Q1, will Bruno Senna continues to show promise, having bumped Petrov out of qualifying in the closing moments, but still could only manage 15th.

Bruno was blocked by traffic on his first flying lap on the supersoft rubber, but he had just enough time to put in another lap. He duly nailed a time of 1m 48.861s to seal 15^th place and make it into Q2. Unfortunately Vitaly only had time for one flying lap on the supersofts and, while his mark of 1m 49.835s was good enough to break into the top 17, he was bumped back down to P18 by Bruno’s late lap.

In Q2 Bruno was just heading out for his first run – again on supersoft tyres – when the session was red-flagged for an accident involving Kamui Kobayashi’s Sauber. That meant Bruno had only one chance to set a lap when the session resumed for the final five minutes. He set a time of 1m 48.662s to take 15^th on the grid.

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