FERRARI - Canadian GP - Qualifying

Grand Prix of Canada
Montreal, 7th June 2014

ALONSO – Chassis 302 RAIKKONEN – Chassis 303
Q1 P9 1:17.010
New Soft – 5 laps
New Supersoft – 3 laps
P10 1:17.013
New Soft – 5 laps
New Supersoft – 3 laps
Q2 P7 1:16.131 New Supersoft – 3 laps P9 1:16.245
New Supersoft – 3 laps
New Supersoft – 3 laps
Q3 P7 1:15.814
New Supersoft – 3 laps
New Supersoft – 3 laps
P10 1:16.214 New Supersoft – 3 laps
Weather: 26/27 °C, track 40/41 °C. Sunny


Fernando Alonso: “The result of qualifying reflects the trend we have seen since the start of the season. As
often happens, even if on Friday we are front runners, on Saturday we struggle a bit more. The development
package we have brought here in Canada has worked well, the car has improved and I am pleased about that,
even if at the moment we are unable to extract all the potential out of the car. Mercedes’ dominance today was
not a surprise and the Red Bulls and Williams also did better than us. I think tomorrow’s race will not be easy,
as it is hard to overtake at the start here, because there is not enough room through the first two corners. We
will also have to do a good job of managing tyre degradation and of choosing the right number of stops. It’s
been much hotter than yesterday and the tyre that seemed to be the best to race on, the Soft, today appeared
less suited to the conditions than the Supersoft. If, as expected, the hot weather continues, the choice will move
towards the latter and that will mean making one more stop.”


Kimi Raikkonen: “All weekend, I haven’t been completely satisfied with the handling of my car and again today
in qualifying I found it difficult. On my only run in Q3, I went out on a new set of Supersofts, but my F14 T was
sliding a lot and I couldn’t put together a good lap. Maybe I could have been one or two places higher up, but I
don’t think it would have changed much. Even if the updates we tried yesterday worked, we knew it wouldn’t be
easy: probably this is one of the tracks that least suits the characteristics of our car. I expect a very long race
tomorrow, in which anything could happen. We will try and get a good start and then give it our all.”


Pat Fry: “Today we knew we’d be facing a difficult qualifying, but to be honest, we were hoping for something a
bit better. We also knew that at this track, we wouldn’t just be fighting Red Bull, but other teams as well who,
thanks to the few corners and long straights here, would give us a hard time and that proved to be the case. The
session began in particularly high temperatures, almost 20 degrees hotter than yesterday and we struggled more
than our rivals to find enough grip with both cars. From a technical point of view Red Bull, thanks to their
higher level of downforce and Williams, with the better driveability of the Mercedes engine, were able to get
more out of the tyres, which meant they were more competitive than us. Tomorrow, we will try and do all we
can to get a good start, although this year it has not been so easy to make the most of the straights for
overtaking. We will definitely have to keep an eye on tyre degradation, which has a bigger effect here, especially
with the rears.”

Tom Beeler

Tom has been a contributor to RIS since 1992. He was invited to join the staff as a full-time reporter/editor in 1995, and has covered IndyCar, Formula 1, NASCAR, Grand-Am, ALMS and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In addition to his RIS work, Tom has been a contributor for General Motors, Nissan, Toyota and the ACO.

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