Silverstone almost feels like a home race - Nelsinho
The ING Renault F1 Team looks forward to round eight of the season, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Nelson Piquet Jr. loves the Silverstone track and it almost feels like a home race for the Brazilian as he has been living in the UK for five years.
"It wasn’t a great weekend and my fate was pretty much decided by the brake problem I had in qualifying. After that we did our best to try and choose a strategy that would work for the race, but we knew it would be difficult to score points starting so far down the grid. However, I still took some positives from the weekend as we found quite a good balance with the car and I had some fun battles in the race, especially with Lewis [Hamilton] when I overtook him at the end of the back straight."
After seven races this year, where do you feel you can improve as a driver?"It’s clear that I need to perform better in qualifying as starting so far down the grid is really hurting me in the races. The problem is that all the teams are so close this season and there are a lot of cars all fighting at the same level – a few tenths can be the difference between sixth and sixteenth on the grid, and so you really can’t afford to make any mistakes in qualifying."
What are your expectations for Silverstone?"It’s a track that I love and hopefully we can go there and get a good result. It’s the local race for Enstone and so we always have good support there and the British fans are really enthusiastic about Formula One. It almost feels like a home race for me as I’ve been living in the UK for five years now and it’s a track where I raced a lot earlier in my career. As I’ve already said, qualifying will be crucial, especially due to the high-speed layout of the track which makes overtaking very difficult."
