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The Importance of Pace in Qualifying
I'm not going to defend him for the FP1, I think, for reasons of charity. He probably had been four or five places further up the grid and probably could have finished second from that. So you could make as much of an argument for him in qualifying as you can against him. It's more like Austria, where he had the pace and through his own lack of performance, didn't translate that into the right result. And in Austria, that lack of performance is lack of sense to keep it within the white line and get yourself eliminated by having laps constantly deleted.