We have obviously had a difficult weekend here in Singapore. The main issue is that for some reason we didn’t get our new package to work. This comes as a surprise because so far all the development steps have paid off. There is a lot of downforce missing. My last lap in Q2 was clear and I think I got the most out of it. We have tried a lot to improve the car’s set-up and everything else, but it didn’t work out.

We have tried everything but could not get rid of the huge oversteer. I have no confidence in the car and this is really the last thing you want to have to cope with on such a street circuit. The problem I have here reminds me somehow of the one I had in Budapest, where I also struggled with the car. Given how the car is, I don’t see how I can recover in the race from where I am starting, but I will not give up, this is certain. Sometimes a safety car deployment or whatsoever can play into your hands and I still hope for the team that we can score some points tomorrow.

After the difficulties we had yesterday, today in free practice we had a real testing session trying to find a fix for this lack of performance we are experiencing. The situation somewhat improved, but not enough to do better than we did in qualifying. We had a couple of incidents this morning, but that was not the major problem today. The qualifying told the truth where we stand. On the positive side we were able to identify where the problem comes from. Nevertheless we cannot solve it here. Now we have to concentrate on the race for which we have some new sets of tyres left. Normally our race pace is better than the qualifying speed, but for sure it will not be easy.