Jean-Karl Vernay (1st): “Last year I was really quick here, but the car wasn’t really ready to perform. The weekend is going to be tough, although I like this warm weather. We need to think about a lot of things; tyre degradation, we need to set up the car for the race and also set up the car for Quaifying. It’s just like when I arrived in Singapore last year – I didn’t know the track but I was quicker than the other guys. It’s the same here; I don’t think I’m over-driving but the lap time was really good. We need to score more points here than last year here, but my team is incredible and I’m really confident.”
James Nash (2nd): “The time was okay and I think our knowledge from last year helped a bit - just getting some clear lap time was important. We had a few issues when we came into the pits, we checked the car over and when we came out of the pits on the first flying lap we had an issue with the driveshaft. There’s some stuff to work on but we’ve got a lot of time left in us and in the car so I’m looking forward to the rest of the weekend.”
Dušan Borković (3rd): “It was quite a good session for us, but it was just a test for everybody. The tyre consumption at this circuit in such hot weather is terrible and I think after one lap the tyres are dead, but it’s the same for everybody. We are in a good position and the Alfa works well on this circuit so we will see what we can do in Free Practice 2.”
