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Piquet happy with top ten

Nelson Piquet managed to qualify himself in the top ten for the first time in his Formula 1 career. The Brazilian showed a steady performance throughout the weekend and managed to turn that into a good result in Saturday's qualifying session.

Speaking about his qualifying result Piquet said: "We have worked well with the car this weekend and after a great Q2 I am happy to reach Q3 for the first time. Nevertheless, I have the feeling that we could have done better. The gaps between the cars are very small, which means that we can expect a very competitive race on a circuit where it is difficult to overtake. But I am determined to have a great race tomorrow and to attack to the maximum."

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