Bruno Senna has silenced the critics of his promotion to a Lotus Renault race seat by doing a brilliant job to qualify seventh at Spa.
The Brazilian, who is three places ahead of team mate Vitaly Petrov, admits he hadn’t expected to manage that on a dry track.
“Getting into the top 10 in the first qualifying session that I did this year was surprisingly good, to be honest,” said Senna. “I was confident in the wet, not so confident in the dry, but it turned out in the dry we had a good pace as well.
“I told the team on the radio that I wasn’t going to try anything outstanding in Q3.
“It’s been a good start. I wasn’t expecting to get in the top 10 in the first qualifying session. I knew in the wet we had a good performance and could be in the top 10, but the drying conditions were making me a bit more nervous. But it turned out we had a good pace and the car was behaving really well in the dry as well.”
Senna says he’s hopeful of a good performance on Sunday: “I think if the conditions are stable, it’s much easier for me. If conditions are changeable all the time, then it’s going to be very, very difficult. I have to still to learn the dry tyres and high fuel. Or even wet tyres and high fuel. Everybody else has a few more races than I do. So I think step by step, and hopefully tomorrow we’ll get a good result.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Bruno has done a good job. But that makes me wonder what would have happened if he was kept as a BrawnGP driver in 2009
Bruno and Felipe at Ferrari is what should have happened.
Makes you wonder where Bruno would be now if he’d got to sign that full-time drive at Honda before they ducked out.