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F1: Rosberg Pleased To Salvage Fifth After FP3 Woes
Nico Rosberg will be gunning for a podium finish in Canada...
Nico Rosberg rolls off fifth in Canada. (Photo: Getty Images)
Nico Rosberg bounced back from a difficult morning session to secure fifth on the grid in Canada.
The German stopped on his first lap out of the pits after a fuel system problem, and thus didn’t do any mileage at all in the session while his rivals were readying their cars for qualifying.
“It definitely makes it difficult to miss out a whole session when everyone else is doing qualy practice and things like that,” said Rosberg. “So I really had to build it up in qualifying. In the end, I’m quite pleased. Fifth place, that was what our car was giving today. Maybe if everything was perfect I could have had fourth, beating Mark (Webber), but we didn’t quite manage that.
“But still it’s a good position to start tomorrow, not quite as strong as in Monaco in qualifying it seems, but maybe race pace-wise we can beat one or two of the cars in front, and a podium has to be the goal.”
Rosberg is hopeful that Mercedes has its setup right: “Strategy is going to be interesting, tire degradation is going to be crucial, but I think we’re well set up to have a good car in the race tomorrow. It’s quite difficult with the tires; there’s a lot of sliding around because you have low downforce on the car. And it’s difficult to find the right balance.”
Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
The German stopped on his first lap out of the pits after a fuel system problem, and thus didn’t do any mileage at all in the session while his rivals were readying their cars for qualifying.
“It definitely makes it difficult to miss out a whole session when everyone else is doing qualy practice and things like that,” said Rosberg. “So I really had to build it up in qualifying. In the end, I’m quite pleased. Fifth place, that was what our car was giving today. Maybe if everything was perfect I could have had fourth, beating Mark (Webber), but we didn’t quite manage that.
“But still it’s a good position to start tomorrow, not quite as strong as in Monaco in qualifying it seems, but maybe race pace-wise we can beat one or two of the cars in front, and a podium has to be the goal.”
Rosberg is hopeful that Mercedes has its setup right: “Strategy is going to be interesting, tire degradation is going to be crucial, but I think we’re well set up to have a good car in the race tomorrow. It’s quite difficult with the tires; there’s a lot of sliding around because you have low downforce on the car. And it’s difficult to find the right balance.”
Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
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