Ferrari duo caught out in qualifying

(Scuderia Ferrari SpA via Twitter)

Ferrari were left to wonder what might have been following an extremely disappointing qualifying session for Sunday's British Grand Prix as both Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen failed to make it out of Q1 for the first time this season. The team struggled with the weather conditions and made the wrong call and as a result Alonso will start the race from 18th place while Raikkonen will start the race from 19th place.

Speaking following qualifying, Alonso said:

'We know there are two Williams and two Ferraris out of Q1, so there's definitely something wrong compared to the other teams because when both cars are out in a session like this it's because you were in the wrong moment with the wrong tyre.'

He went on to say: 

'We need to do better next time. I think the bigger teams have longer procedures than smaller teams, so we need to speed up some of the communications and some of the things that we do.'

Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen continued to struggle at a circuit where he had never before been out-qualified by a team mate. The Finn won here during his 2007 championship winning year. The Iceman said:

'We knew the changeable weather would make this qualifying very unpredictable, but I definitely didn't expect this sort of result. On my first run, I did four laps on Intermediate tyres because the track was still wet, but then when it stopped raining we decided to switch to slicks. On the first part of the track, the conditions were acceptable, but in the second sector, it began raining again and this prevented us from setting a good enough time to get into Q2. 

Tomorrow, it won't be easy moving up the order, but we will do our best to make up ground, also because today I had a better feeling than yesterday and I see no reason why I shouldn't try and have a good race.'

The team will have an awful lot of work to do in order to make their way through the field in the race tomorrow on a track which can be tricky to overtake on but they will see what happens during the race. 

© Ben Johnston 2014