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| Kimi Raikkonen took seventh while Romain Grosjean finished ninth in a solid but frustrating Indian Grand Prix where both drivers finished right behind the cars ahead |
Kimi Räikkönen:
I had a very good car today but I just couldn’t do anything with it as I was not
able to pass on the straight. It was quite disappointing but that’s how it goes. We
put ourselves in that position yesterday with the set-up we chose for qualifying and we
paid the price today. We had the speed but not in the right place and when you are behind
someone there’s not much you can do. Hopefully in the next race we can be a bit more
smart and use our race speed to take some more Championship points.
Romain Grosjean:
Finishing 9th after starting from 12th is good but we could have done even better. That
said, I think it was a very good race from myself, my engineers, and the crew during the
pit stops. We did everything we could; everybody was working at 100% but today we were
lacking some speed in a straight line which makes it impossible to overtake. I pushed on
every lap - it was like 90 minutes of qualifying - and gave everything to get the best
performance from the car, so I’m very happy.
Eric Boullier, Team Principal:
Like every race, qualifying is obviously the key to get good points so
yesterday’s performance defined our race. Unfortunately Kimi was unable to overtake
Felipe and stayed stuck behind. I think we had the pace to be a little bit better and get
nearer the front. We clearly need to work on qualifying and make sure we do a better job.
We know our car is strong in the race and I think both drivers today did the job we were
expecting. The team did a great job on the pit stop strategy so we cannot complain.
Let’s just say we’re frustrated that we didn’t do a little bit
better.
Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director:
Both drivers reported that their cars were excellent during the race, which was good.
The downside was that Kimi spent the whole race looking at the back of Massa’s car
and Romain was held up for around four laps whilst Michael (Schumacher) received blue
flags ahead of him. This circuit is pretty difficult to overtake on; even though
there’s a very long straight, the DRS zone isn’t actually that long. It was
clear we were definitely faster than the cars ahead, just not sufficiently faster to
overtake.
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