GP Bahrain: Qualifying

1. S. Vettel, Red Bull, 1:54.101
2. F. Massa, Ferrari, 1:54.242
3. F. Alonso, Ferrari, 1:54.608
12. V. Liuzzi, Force India, 1:55.653

Tonio will start tomorrow’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix from 12th position, his best starting slot since the Italian GP 2009. He got thru the first part of the qualifying session by setting the 10th fastest time, later on in Q2 he secured the 12th position on the grid.

Tonio commented: “I am a bit disappointed as we didn’t know what had happened to the car since free practice. In the morning it seemed to have a pretty good balance and we didn’t change very much but then we went into qualifying and we had a problem with the traction. That was the main reason we couldn’t go through to Q3. Now we have to work on this and understand what happened but we believe in the race that we should be really strong as yesterday we were quick on the longer runs.”