Michael Schumacher will start the Singapore GP from ninth place, having made Q3 for the first time since Silverstone, and only the ninth time in 15 attempts this year.
He’ll start two places behind team mate Nico Rosberg, who again had the edge on him in qualifying.
“Is it that long?,” said Michael when told about his drought. “Anyway it’s good, and even more being on the right side of the grid is very important here, as I understand from last year. We have a good statistic for the first lap, so I hope to keep it up, and come home with some important and valuable points for the constructors. It is probably true, once the start is done, it will be difficult. But the first corners are going to be the crucial ones, to make up your positions.”
Schumacher said he was happy with the way his car has performed this weekend.
“It’s been going OK. We started off in P1 and P3 initially quite good, and then as the session developed we sort of changed bits and pieces, tried to improve the car, but it didn’t seem to come much forward. Finally for qualifying we put everything together and got a reasonable package out of it.
“Even in qualifying we were still experimenting a bit around, which paid out partly. Overall we could have been seventh, it probably would have been the maximum, what Nico was doing, he optimised his situation quite well, and did a good job. It’s up to us to come close to him.
“I had very good long runs yesterday. It’s been going all year long that Nico in a one lap situation sneaks off a couple of tenths from me, and then when it comes to race pace, I actually look stronger than him, and yesterday that was the case. I look forward to tomorrow.”
Michael says he likes the night time aspect of Singapore: “It’s very special and exceptional, considering the time schedule as well that we have live in. It’s pretty unusual.”
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“…and then when it comes to race pace, I actually look stronger than him…”, says Michael Schumacher, referring to Nico Rosberg.
But Rosberg has 112 points to Schumacher’s 46, it looks the other way around to me.
Well, Schumacher has been starting so much behind his teammate, that a slightly better race pace hasn’t been enough to catch him, for most of the season. Maybe in the last few races that has improved a bit for him though, with the two often being pretty close on the grid.