Sauber’s Felipe Nasr says he is eyeing a points finish in the Russia after qualifying a solid twelfth earlier today.
The Brazilian has only finished in the top ten on one occasion since the Monaco Grand Prix in May and is hoping to change this in tomorrow’s race.
The key to qualifying today was to get the tyres to work and in the correct operating window – which is what Nasr did hence the strong qualifying performance.
Qualifying was the first time Nasr had used the supersoft tyres this weekend thus had to adapt quickly, as he explains.
“It was a good qualifying. A very close competition. As I did not run the supersoft tyres on short runs in FP3, I had to find my rhythm quickly to understand them. Luckily during qualifying we made the right changes and got the tyres to work in the right window. We can be pleased with this result.
“P12 is a good position from which to fight for some points tomorrow.”
Sauber teammate Marcus Ericsson struggled in qualifying and will start 17th.
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