A solid team effort and a fine piece of driving on his very last run means that the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel will start from the front row of the grid in Sunday's USGP at the Circuit of the Americas.
Sebastian didn't expect to get as close to pole sitter and title rival Lewis Hamilton as he eventually did, however it is a positive sign for not just the German driver but the entire Italian team, especially as the car is usually better in race trim than it is in qualifying.
โMy final lap in Q3 was good enough for the front rowโ, Sebastian said โand in the end we got closer than we had expected. I am looking forward to the race, and then tomorrow we'll see what we can do.โ
โThe car is good and generally we have a better pace in racing, so it should be better tomorrow. Again, the team did a splendid job in rebuilding the car around a different chassis overnight and not even breaking the curfew!โ
โFor tomorrow we need a good start first of all and then we need to put pressure on our competitors. I'm not too concerned about starting on the less rubbered-in side of the track, as we've seen in the past here that you can attack. We have the car to do so and we can fightโ.
