Saturday 23 May 2015

Q&A with the Lotus F1 Team's Trackside Operations Director Alan Permane

(Lotus F1 Team)
How was qualifying for the team?

We’re reasonably happy, although we always want a bit more and it would have been good to be ahead of both of the Toro Rossos and Force Indias for the race tomorrow. Pastor did a great job to get into the top ten whilst Romain will have a tough race through qualifying in eleventh position then getting a gearbox penalty which drops him five places.
 
What are the considerations for tomorrow’s race?

Ensuring clean laps, avoiding any contact with the barriers and other cars is particularly relevant here. With Pastor, it’s a case of trying to make positions whenever possible against similarly paced cars. Romain on the other hand will be around much slower cars at the start so we will look at what we can do strategically to assist him to move forwards as soon as possible.

© Ben Johnston 2015


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