Paul Di Remained Frustrated, But Not Too Much

This Saturday in qualifying, during Q3, Paul Di Resta did not want to do like everyone else. And it almost paid off. While all his counterparts set off on slick tires on the track as the rain appeared, the Force India driver chose a different option. “I was sitting in the garage looking at the screens when the engineers said ‘everyone uses medium tyres’ and I said ‘no, everyone bring out the umbrellas, let’s try something different’. It was my idea, I claim that one,” he explains à Sky Sports F1. Wearing intermediate tires, the Scot will go out on the track much later than the other drivers. When the latter returned to their pits to change tires, the Briton found himself alone in the world.

“We went out when the conditions were optimal, it was a bit wet in sector three, but if we had gone out at the end with everyone else we wouldn't have been where we are”. Long at the top of the hierarchy as the rain intensified, his time then seemed unbeatable. But the capricious microclimate of Spa-Francorchamps will decide otherwise, the track will gradually improve at the very end of the event, allowing the Red Bull and both Mercedes to overtake the Scot, who, with his fifth place, nevertheless equals his best qualification of the year, signed in Bahrain. “It’s frustrating, but these things happen, he expresses. But we all savor the moment. We match our best position in qualifying this year and we will do everything we can tomorrow to score points again. »

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