Saturday Qualifying Sepang - Report Giedo

Weather

FP3: Dry, sunny; min / max track temp 43° - 48°, air temp 34°

Q1: Dry, sunny; track temp 41°, air temp 32

Fastest laps / positions:

FP3: PIC 1.38.995, 19th / VDG 1.40.209, 21st

Q1: PIC 1.39.314, 20th / VDG 1.39.932, 22nd

Total laps:

FP3: PIC 18 / VDG 18

Q1: PIC 6 / VDG 6

Runplan

Giedo van der Garde, car #21, chassis CT03-05

FP3

1300 - 1313: Run 1, 6 laps (hard tyres)

Changes: brake balance, front torsion bar

1322 - 1335: Run 2, 6 laps (hard tyres)

Changes: brake balance, front wing flap angle, front torsion bar

1345 - 1402: Run 3, 6 laps (medium tyres)

Q1

1603 - 1609: Run 1, 3 laps (medium tyres)

Changes: front wing flap angle, brake balance

1616 - 1622: Run 2, 3 laps (medium tyres)

Driver quotes

Giedo van der Garde: "Qualifying didn't go well for me today to be honest. I've had an issue with a lot of oversteer on the option tyres all day and really couldn't get them to work as well as they did at the last race and that obviously hurt my pace. It's odd as the car felt good on the hard compounds in FP3 today but I just couldn't get the mediums to work so we'll have to look at that again tonight.

"However, with the car performing well on the primes and the pace we have on the inters I think tomorrow could be interesting. It's rained every day at about the same time as it'll be halfway through the race tomorrow so strategy's going to be really important. Physically I feel really good, totally prepared for the race, so we'll look at the plans for the race and hopefully pick up where we left off in FP3."

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