Nico Rosberg believes he lost out on setting his fastest flying lap when Felipe Massa crashed in the dying moments of qualifying, with the yellow flags promptly being waved and bringing an end to any meaningful running. The German ultimately had to settle for seventh, but was happy with the progress made on his side of the garage.
"I'm pleased that we made a step forward today but we could perhaps have finished higher," the Mercedes GP driver explained. "In Q1, I hit a kerb quite heavily and damaged the floor which lost some of the car's downforce for the rest of qualifying.
"I was on my quickest lap at the end of Q3 but unfortunately I had to slow down for the yellow flag after Felipe's incident so that cost me some time. I will push hard to gain places tomorrow and have a good race on this fantastic track.
"I'm guessing it will be an exciting race and the Indian people should be proud to have one of the best tracks in the world of motorsport now!"
Team-mate Michael Schumacher added: "Qualifying today was not really very good for us. At first I hit some traffic, and then on my final run in Q2, there was again vibrations on the set of tyres. Saying that, this certainly does not explain the time gap to Nico so we need to understand what the reason was for that and get on top of it.
"As for the race tomorrow, this should work out better for me, and my aim undoubtedly is to score some points. I'm not really sure which side of the grid will be the better one, so I will just take it from there and try to gain as much as possible."
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