Force India has gone back to using its previous aerodynamic package, having not held enough confidence in new components it has brought to Barcelona. Following a difficult qualifying session at the Circuit de Catalunya, Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil line up in sixteenth and seventeenth positions.
“We switched back to our traditional aero package this morning because we didn’t really have enough time to understand all the new parts that we brought here,” German Sutil, 17th on the grid, began to explain.
“So we went back to a package and balance that we were already happy with. We also know that qualifying is not as important as it used to be and that race strategy now plays a bigger factor in your race result - that’s why we only ran the Prime (Hard compound) tyres during Q2, so that we could keep some new Option (Soft) tyres for the race.”
One grid position ahead, newcomer di Resta has out-qualified his more experienced team-mate for the fourth time in five races.
“I don’t think our position on the grid is that representative of our true pace this weekend,” said the Scot.
“We took the decision very early on that saving tyres for the race would free up our strategy a bit; that means I’ve got two sets of new Options and a set of new Primes to use tomorrow. On paper that looks like the sensible approach, so hopefully things will work out.”
“So we went back to a package and balance that we were already happy with. We also know that qualifying is not as important as it used to be and that race strategy now plays a bigger factor in your race result - that’s why we only ran the Prime (Hard compound) tyres during Q2, so that we could keep some new Option (Soft) tyres for the race.”
“I don’t think our position on the grid is that representative of our true pace this weekend,” said the Scot.
“We took the decision very early on that saving tyres for the race would free up our strategy a bit; that means I’ve got two sets of new Options and a set of new Primes to use tomorrow. On paper that looks like the sensible approach, so hopefully things will work out.”
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