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Alonso squeezes Renault into top ten
05 April 2008 / Results / PhotosRenault experienced a tough afternoon as Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet qualified in 10th and 14th places for tomorrow's Bahrain Grand Prix
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"I am satisfied to have reached Q3 because I had some doubts that we would this morning," said Alonso. "But we made several changes before qualifying and we felt they were an improvement after Q1, and that gave us the confidence to be more aggressive in Q2. Once we had qualified for Q3, we knew that it would be difficult to match the pace of the leading cars because we had already been pushing to the limit, so we took the decision to prepare for the race tomorrow. We will now see if we can get some points this weekend."
Nelson Piquet commented, "I am a bit disappointed because I had hoped to reach the final qualifying session today, even though I knew that it was going to be difficult. I did not do a perfect lap on my final run in Q2, but I hope that I will be able to reverse this tomorrow and that I can fight through the field. The race will be very competitive and we will have to fight hard, but I am determined to attack and to continue learning."
Engineering director Pat Symonds added "As we expected, the journey to Q3 was a difficult one and Nelson missed out. However, this is a circuit where the times are very close and his weekend has been positive up to this point. With Fernando we got through to Q3 and elected to use two sets of the harder tyres for the final runs, but unfortunately a mistake on the final run meant that he abandoned the lap and he therefore starts in tenth place."
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