Schumacher: Mercedes face major job!!

26/3/11,
The German driver talks about the unexpected moderate performance today in the qualifying test!!

The German driver of Mercedes GP, Michael Schumacher said that Mercedes face a major job to improve the car's performance after failing reaching the top ten in qualifying.

After the qualifying test Schumacher said: “After winter testing, coming to the first race we had expected different performance so, naturally, there is some disappointment.

“The times we’ve done in testing, they were very clear and we had a good interpretation, we didn’t manage this performance here and we have to understand why we didn’t. And that’s going to be the major job that we have in front of us.”

He also missed the Q3 by a tenth of a second despite using soft tires in Q2:

“The soft tyres was working for more than one lap so I used that for first qualifying and second qualifying, and then went to a new set after.

“We had a bit of issues with KERS not working so it was a bit of an inconsistent session. But anyway, I don’t know exactly what was the problem with Nico Rosberg, but over the weekend we are not where we are supposed to be.”

He also said that even with the DRS overtaking might not be easy in the tomorrow race:

“You need to be quicker to be able to overtake! If I am slower all those gimmicks don’t help you very much. We’ll find out.”