09/07/2011
James, your verdict on what was a very disappointing Silverstone Saturday for LRGP?
JA: The alterations to the engine rules have clearly upset the order somewhat, but that’s not where all our focus lies. The fact is that for the past three or four races we have been on a trend that is far from impressive and, at this event, we have been showing far less performance than we should be showing with our car and of the efforts of our team and partners. We need to pick ourselves up from here and get a lot of the forthcoming developments onto the car, because P14 and P16 are simply not good enough. We missed the top ten by a very small margin today but we’ve got upgrades to come for Germany which are worth three-tenths, even more tenths for the race after that. So, we’ve got to grind that out and put the car in a position that is more reflective of where we should be.
Has it been difficult with the poor weather to understand the impact the engine mapping changes have had?
JA: It has made it awkward but it’s been like this for everyone, so that’s no justification for underperforming like we have over the past two days.
What can be done tomorrow?
JA: We’ve benefited from the fact that we’ve saved an extra set of tyres, so there’s a silver lining to the cloud! The tyres will be precious tomorrow, there’s no doubt of that. The soft (option) tyre is the right one to be racing on, and the degradation is high, so rather like in Spain and at other tracks this season having a virgin set is quite a good thing. We’ve got to get a good start and then make the most of the leverage that things like that extra set will give us.
Credit: Lotus Renault GP (www.lotusrenaultgp.com)
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