Sebastian Vettel says he enjoyed his first acquaintance with the Buddh circuit today, although like everyone else he found the dusty conditions difficult.
Vettel finished FP2 in India in second place, just 0.088s off pacesetter Felipe Massa.
“It’s interesting, a good challenge,” said Vettel. “It’s very dusty to start with, but the track seems fun, especially the wide entries give a lot of options to all the drivers. We’ll see a good race on Sunday.
“It is tricky, because it’s so dusty offline in particular. If a car goes off in front and comes back it carries all the sand on the line, so it’s not easy. It will be a bit the story of the weekend, so we have to make sure we stay on line. Unfortunately we have to live with it, but I think it will improve throughout the weekend. It shouldn’t be a big problem in the race.”
Vettel says he expects overtaking to be possible.
“I think so, there are two DRS zones here, but also even without DRS it should be a good circuit to overtake, it should be definitely possible. Long straights, wide entries, hard stops.”
Regarding his own progress, Vettel said: “It’s Friday, it doesn’t really matter, the top ranking. I think we can be happy. The car felt good, straight from this morning, and it was about getting into the rhythm of the circuit, getting to know the car around here, and that seemed to work quite well. Our long run seemed good. We’ll have to see, it’s still early.”
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