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Buemi content despite gearbox problem
Sébastien Buemi has been seemingly plagued by technical woes so far this year and the trend unfortunately continued for the Swiss driver at Spa on Friday, as he remained rooted to the pit lane for much of Free Practice 1 due to gearbox problems. However, due to the weather, the problem’s effects were limited.
Managing a more respective total of 25 laps in the afternoon period, Buemi ended the day 17th quickest, three places and nine tenths down on Spanish team-mate Jaime Alguersuari.
“We had an issue on the gearbox in the morning but in reality we did not lose much running time because it was raining so hard at that time,” he said. “At least it meant I saved the wear on my rain tyres.
“In the second session, when it dried up, it was difficult to get a true picture relating to our performance, as everyone was trying something different.
"The important thing now is to do a good job of analysing all our data, in terms of car setup and the difference between the two Slick compounds, and see what we can do for tomorrow.
“In the dry, I was quite happy on the Hard compound but with the Option I did not get the tyres to work properly, so I did not get the most out of them and we will have to look at that in tomorrow morning’s session.”
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