QUALIFYING REPORT
“My first run in Q3 was pretty
average to say the least. I made
a few mistakes. Then obviously I
thought I had one more chance but
then the red flag came out. I thought
that was looking like that was it.
They got me out in front and then I
put in the lap, so it was good. I knew
not everyone would get a lap, so I
was just trying to thing “do a good
enough lap to at least jump up from
seventh”, but in the end it was third.
I’m really happy to bounce back with
top three.”
Behind Ricciardo and Vettel,
fifth place went to Ferrari’s Kimi
Raikkonen with Felipe Massa sixth
for Williams. Daniil Kvyat put in a
good lap to claim seventh for Toro
Rosso ahead of the second Williams
of Valtteri Bottas and Red Bull’s Max
Verstappen in P9. Hamilton qualified
in P10.
Earlier, the big casualty of Q1
was McLaren’s Jenson Button, who
was eliminated in P19 behind the
Manor duo of Rio Haryanto in P17
and Pascal Wehrlein. Behind Button
were Sauber’s Marcus Ericsson and
the Renaults of Kevin Magnussen
and Jolyon Palmer.
Eliminated in Q2 were Romain
Grosjean in P11 followed by Force
India’s Nico Hulkenberg, Toro
Rosso’s Carlos Sainz, McLaren’s
Fernando Alonso, Haas’ Esteban
Gutierrez and Sauber’s Felipe Nasr.