Caterham F1 Team Bahrain qualifying review 20.04.2013: BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX - FP3 & QUALIFYING Sakhir International Circuit, Bahrain - Saturday 20th April 2013

BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX - FP3 & QUALIFYING

Sakhir International Circuit, Bahrain - Saturday 20th April 2013 



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Weather

FP3: Overcast, dry; min / max track temp 42° - 44°, air temp 33°
Q1: Overcast, dry; track temp 45°, air temp 33°


Fastest laps / positions:

FP3: PIC 1.35.816, 18th / VDG 1.36.939, 20th  
Q1: PIC 1.35.283, 19th / VDG 1.36.304, 21st  


Total laps:

FP3: PIC 16 / VDG 16
Q1: PIC 6 / VDG 7



Runplan
 

Charles Pic, car #20, chassis CT03-06
 

FP3

1105 – 1117: Run 1, 6 laps (hard tyres)
Changes: front wing flap angle, front anti-roll bar, front / rear brake blanking
1130 – 1141: Run 2, 6 laps (hard tyres)
Changes: front wing flap angle, front anti-roll bar
1154 – 1203: Run 3, 4 laps (medium tyres)
 

Q1

1407 – 1413: Run 1, 3 laps (medium tyres)
Changes: n/a
1416 – 1422: Run 2, 3 laps (medium tyres)
 


Giedo van der Garde, car #21, chassis CT03-05
 

FP3

1105 – 1117: Run 1, 6 laps (hard tyres)
Changes: front brake blanking
1124 – 1134: Run 2, 5 laps (hard tyres)
Changes: front wing flap angle
1153 – 1203: Run 3, 5 laps (medium tyres)
 

Q1

1404 – 1414: Run 1, 4 laps (hard tyres)
Changes: front wing flap angle
1417 – 1422: Run 2, 3 laps (medium tyres)
 

 
Driver quotes

 
Charles Pic: “I’m pretty happy with where we finished today. We’d obviously have liked to be a little higher up the grid but with the package we have here in Bahrain I think we got as much as we could today in quali, so we can be reasonably pleased.


We have a couple of new parts here which have definitely helped us make some progress, and after a good FP3 we were well set for quali. Yesterday the car had quite a bit of understeer which is pretty much a direct result of putting on updates at the back of the car, but the changes we made overnight gave me a much more balanced car and the final lap time today in Q1 showed the progress we’ve made since last week.


Now we need to carry that pace into tomorrow’s race and having seen relatively good deg levels on the long runs we could have an interesting fight with a few cars ahead.”
 



Giedo van der Garde: “For me that was a decent qualifying session and I’m happy with where we finished up, considering the fact I’m in the same car we’ve raced since Australia without the new parts Charles has been running here in Bahrain.


Overall I’m pleased for the whole team as his laptime today is a sign of what we have to come and the amount of hard work everyone’s putting in to show how we can perform. In Spain I’ll have the same updates as my teammate and that’ll obviously mean I’ll be able to compete at the level he is, but for today I got nearly everything out of the car on that final lap and I think I can play an important role in the race tomorrow on a track that we’re clearly looking OK on.”



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